On new year's eve, birthday parties, surprises, and more on strangers

Our profound ignorance is the main ingredient of Mystery, and of our infatuation with Mystery.
It can explain many of our irrational actions; the reason we sometimes fall in love with complete strangers, and the reason why surprises provide such a joy. It might also explain, at least in part, why we celebrate birthdays and new years: because they are new and unknown times. We "hope" that next year is going to be THE YEAR. It's somewhat similar to Schrödinger's cat; the cat is both alive and dead until we decide to open the box and "kill" our ignorance about its state. Same applies to strangers, new year, our birthdays, gifts, and hope in general. They are everything that we aim (hope) for, until we unravel the mystery that wraps them.

جان بوست لطيف استمتعت بكتابته والتفكير بيه

إنّ حظّي كدقيقٍ فوقَ شوكٍ نثروهُ
ثمّ قالوا لحُفاةٍ يومَ ريحٍ إجمعوهُ
صعُبَ الأمرُ عليهمْ قلتُ يا قومِ اتركوهُ
إنّ من أشقاهُ ربِّي كيفَ أنتم تسعدوهُ؟

A happy life is impossible, the highest that man can achieve is a heroic life

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

الناسُ اليوم، كما في كُلِّ زمان، على طبقَتَين: سادةٌ وعبيد. كُلُّ مَن لا يَملِكُ ثُلثَي يومِه لنفسِه فهو بمنزلةِ العبيد، مهما تكن منزِلَتُه بين الناس؛ سواءً كان رجلَ دولةٍ أو تاجرًا أو موظفًا أو عالمًا.

— فريدريك نيتشه

Malaria is characterized by febrile paroxysm; recurrent alternating episodes of shivers and fever that usually begin in the night.

This is because the infection cycle of plasmodium (Malaria) occurs in a highly synchronous fashion, with roughly all of the parasites throughout the blood in the same stage of development, so the infected RBCs rupture and cause systemic inflammatory response roughly at the same time.
This precise clocking mechanism has been shown to be dependent on the human host's own circadian rhythm.

مرضى الملاريا بالعادة يعانون من حالة إسمها febrile paroxysm بحيث بالليل يحسون بنوبات متكررة من الشعور بالبرد وراها حمى وحرارة عالية وراها يتعرقون لحدما تنتهي النوبة اللي تستمر شي 8 ساعات. وبعدها تتكرر من جديد.

هالشي يصير لأن طفيليات الملاريا تنمو بداخل كريات الدم الحمر بشكل متزامن وية الساعة البايولوجية للفرد المصاب بحيث أغلبها توصل لمرحلة البلوغ وتكسّر كريات الدم الحمر بالليل، وبالنتيجة الجسم ينتج ردة فعل مناعية ضد هالحدث المتزامن ويتسبب بـ Febrile paroxysm

Malaria is actually interesting

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Meditation (n.)

The superpower of sitting still and doing nothing

Couldn't agree more

I’m not an actor, but cameras don’t bother me. I remember seeing myself in the lens and thinking, “I own you.” Meaning I was in control of my performance, and so I owned the camera and the shooting and the audience. That’s probably my narcissism. In front of crowds I get amped up, and the energy feeds on itself. It’s like a drug to me.

- The psychopath inside

'المحكمة'