Photo Day (Stream of Thought 9)

Talking about connection, photos bring people together; they freeze the moment. It is like you cut out a memory and you freeze it in time. You save it with its smiles and happiness and each time you go back to see it you remember the smiles, the conversations, the memories, the teasing and everything else. Even if you were crying in these photos, you will remember why. You will remember how happy or how sad you were and your emotions will be regenerated. It’s this immediate connection that happens between you and these photos, remembering how you felt back then and how it was deadly, freaking awesome taking these photos and enjoying them. It’s re-living the incidents over and over again just by keeping a memory saved on our Laptop or in your photo album. Photos are a manner of communication.

Yesterday, I was having my photo day with one of the most marvelous people I have ever met. We laughed, we cheered, we enjoyed. We hit each other, we ran after each other, we sprayed each other and we were triumphing and enjoying every second. We had group photos, individual photos, crazy photos, photos with poses and kisses. There were the funny captures and the snap shots. There was every kind of craziness ever imagined.

I saw my friends, how happy and sad they were. I saw how we were laughing with teary eyes when we were writing to each other on the t-shirts. I saw the memories being documented with every snap shot, with every click on the camera button, with every smile and cheer and cry. I was in this, and no matter what I’d say, I’d never get out the feeling correctly. There was a click between us. There was love in the air.

I also saw the representatives being so tired and so energy drained yet enjoying our smiles. They saw in our eyes the happiness and we saw in theirs the sweetness of the feeling to have achieved something, to have been the reason of happiness for more than a hundred person. These people took from their studying time, their energy, their rest time and their leisure time to help execute the most perfect photo day and the most organized one I’ve ever seen in four years.

Sana, Nehal, Reham, Kareem, Merihan, Yara, Mo’atasem, Mariam, Hoda Menna and Eman, thanks to all of you. And a special thanks goes to Mahmoud for an amazing, creative, very catchy t-shirt design. Thanks to have drawn a smile on our faces. Thanks to have given us the chance to remember each and every corner in this Department and in this University with joy and laughter and happiness along with the nervous break downs and cries. Thanks to have shared each moment and thanks to have given us the opportunity to share back.

My Department, My Professors, My Friends, I have so much gratitude inside that I can’t speak of and I have that happiness that you gave me. Thanks for making me the one I am now.

And to my circle of friends…شكرا انكم استحملتوا جناني كل ده و تقبلتوني زي ما انا

شكرا لكم كلكم

 April 27th 2013
A day to Remember <3