Friday, October 4, 2013

"Dubai from the eyes of a third world country"

It is inevitable not to be astonished by all those things that one thought of as impossible, and can only  be seen once you step into the desert sands of Dubai. From white sandy crystal clear beaches, to multicolored sand dunes, and a snow slope inside a mall, all in one same place at the same time. Dubai has it all from the tallest tower, to the largest mall and the biggest dancing fountain. Dubai in a nutch is every country envious sudden rapid success.
In a deserted Gulf country, with high heat temperatures and humid hot weather; the climate circumstances have never stop man from doing the impossible, possible. I guess we can say money, can really move mountains.
After just a month, a few weeks or even days of leaving the country, we may all become desentizised to the biggest, the best and the greatest attributes of the UAE. But once you face the comeback from the outsideworld, reality taps you once more on the shoulder, reminding you "this is not something you see everyday"; for example travelling on the best, largest and most luxurious airline in the world, landing on the largest airport terminal, going down the biggest elevators, or taking a Mercedes, BMW or Rolls Royce taxi. From the moment you step out in Dubai land, it all becomes the biggest, the greatest and the best of the best.
It is inevitable not to compare (to not say being envious), contrasting the enormous success and development of just one of the seven Emirates, to one's own entire native country; and wonder how things could be so different, if one could only make a change, and make the difference.
From the perspective of a third world country, there is always space for improvement. But the will for change is the key to the door of success. Change is always something feared to face, but it is the leap of faith to a new encounter in life.
So then I wonder if one's success, other's misery or road down the slope?
To my state of mind a personal aim for a goal, may lead to others misfortune, but that misfortune should be one's own fortune to opportunity. Life after all is as they say, the survival of the fittest.
And sometimes, when such opportunities that we pursue in life, we take them for granted, when we simply lay back and selfishly forget to appreciate all that greatly surrounds us. One should always seek for knowledge and be thirsty for the greatest and the best of the best; as we tend to sometimes think of happiness and satisfaction, as conformability, which eventually becomes another way of mediocracy.
Satisfied happiness should be instead, the stage of peace and rest after the battle of seek to success.