Last Thursday Night

Last Thursday night, I grouped most of my friends in a café called “24/7”, a lovely popular place in the entrance of Alexandria in front of Carrefour, it was a wonderful gathering, full of friends from different places and haven’t met for years, I was very happy but very quite in the same time which chocked me, wanted to listen more than talking, wanted to view them and how they deal more than sharing the conversations itself, wanted to review my life in small shots of memories with every and each one of them in silence.
And they talked about every thing without noticing me, work, marriage, life, weather, sex, football, politics and even stories about foreign countries, three of them were just visiting Egypt and will go back in few days to their jobs and work in foreign countries, they talked a lot about the gulf area and their attitudes and habits, about what really hurts in living abroad, about the lonely nights, the solitude, the need of a friend and a home, the main reason why people got scared from travelling, the fear of living your life unnoticed and forgotten in a strange land without friends or family.
The famous case of Hesham Talaat Mostafa and whether he killed the singer or not and how corrupted our country became, this issue took lots of endless arguments.
I shared these long talks with smiles and head bangs and few words.
It seams we are going to our middle age crisis, men thoughts are getting smaller and their interests are going back to women and sex and teenage dreams.
After viewing the gang in a different prospective you discover your vision about people has changed, you get to rediscover yourself through your friends and the people who used to be close to you how they became weird persons now, also others who use to be casual and how they became special and closer, who really have changed? Them or me?
I can’t wait for the rain any more, it is like a need for a shower, a need to get cleaned, a need to wash all the remains, a need to be shiny and wet again.
The weather is moving to wonderful, no heat and no hot sun, a chilly wind is playing days and nights and Alexandria is in its better shapes and weathers.
I need a long vacation, out of Alexandria, may be in the desert, but a free vacation without any commitments or obligations.