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A recent study have shown that…….

…unhappy people watch more TV!!

So don’t you be raising your eyebrows at me when I say that I don’t have a TV at home :p

HERE’s the link to the original article

Guess where I was on Friday?  

Ladies and gentlemen, that is Moez Masoud <3 <3 <3

Millions and millions of thanks to flatmate for agreeing for come with me to the talk. I would’ve felt really, really silly running around the tube stations and getting lost ALONE at the LSE campus. And thank you for taking his picture when my camera decided to die on me – out of ALL days!

I didn’t really know he was coming to the UK until Tuesday, I think. I almost went to Nottingham instead because I thought he’d only be going there. But I found out that he’d be in London too, so I decided to just see him when he was in London. London’s closer – or is it not?  Well, it was 28 pounds well spent! If a handful, JUST a handful of the religious leaders (broadly categorising) in Brunei spoke like him, with so much passion, conviction and cultural literacy, a moral dilemma could’ve been the least of our worries. As you can see from the picture – I sat front row! I could’ve sat closer but I was shy. Huhuhuh. This is just waaaaay better than any gigs or concerts. Serius!

Anyway, the topic was entitled “Soul Crunch : How Building the Right Relationships Can Help You Survive Troubled Times”. From a glance, one would expect him to focus on the relationship between us and God, and how  everything else would follow through from there on – but there’s an extension to that. There are actually other things (2 more) that we also need to work on  to get that spiritual peace, happiness, and stability; to fight that ‘materialistic philosphy’ and the greed that’s eating up the society; and to find that Paradise in the Hereafter, God willing. I shall dedicate one post focusing on just this at a different time. 

Another assumption that one might derive from seeing that topic (or even the event itself) is how it would only be applicable to the Muslims and ONLY benefit the Muslims. Well, it wasn’t and isn’t. A significant part of the talk was infact on how we could act as a society, and how our actions could benefit the humanity as a whole. He actually began his talk by quoting the lyrics of a song by Eddie Vedder. Below is the vid clip and the lyrics of the aforementioned song.

It’s a mystery to me.
We have a Greed, with which we have agreed.
And you think you have to want more than you need.
Until you have it all, you won’t be Free.
Society, you’re a crazy breed.
I hope you’re not lonely without me.
When you want more than you have, you think you need.
And when you think more than you want your thoughts begin to bleed.
I think I need to find a bigger place.
‘Cause when you have more than you think you need more space.
There’s those thinking more less, less is more.Th

Now, wouldn’t you agree? I will, insya Allah (God willing), dedicate another post on this aspect alone at a different time… so you can then expect me to breakdown the talk into a number of posts  

Till then. Peace.