Kkha, oh dad

Our most prominent behavioral and social problems begin early in our communities, very early... We welcome our children with phrases: "Kokha ya Baba," and "Aah ya Mama," and "Shame," until hair grows on their mustaches. These phrases, which accompany our children for many years, have made many of them unable to speak properly or ask questions; their sentences seem incomplete, as if swarms of voracious mice have attacked them with their sharp teeth. Meanwhile, the sentences of other children appear more astonishing and joyful. We prevented our children early on from trying and making mistakes, so we harvested a fragile generation, except for those whom Allah mercy. Early stumbling beginnings not only diminish the chances of football teams winning the league, but also diminish the chances of parents winning with a creative son or daughter. Professor "Sydney Altman," an American biochemist of Canadian origin, and Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry in 1989, believes that suppressing children does not make them successful people: he says, "Verbal and physical repression does not create creativity; creativity needs two wings: initiative and not fearing to make mistakes. Have you seen a bird flying without wings?" Here... is an attempt by the author to criticize some of our behaviors and contemporary social phenomena, from hearing "Kokha ya Baba" from children to our old age. The author tried to shed light on some practices that turned us into a frustrated and hopeless society that does not know how to rejoice. These writings were recorded between 2004 and 2010.