When I first started writing here, I promised myself to try my best to keep my other blog going. So far, I have been keeping my promise. I am not posting stuff there as frequently, but I do post every once in a while.

I somehow feel more free posting there as I’ve never received any comments to any of my posts, which makes the idea of a real person reading my entries one that is further from reality than it is over here, and this exact feeling has made that blog more of a diary or a journal that I write for myself, yet tidy it up in case someone decides to take a look or two.

As part of my plan to keeping that blog updated, I posted an Eid Al-Fitr entry on Eid’s evening. The post aimed to wish all my possibly existing virtual readers a Happy Eid. It was a very short entry announcing that the next day was Eid Al-Fitr, along with wishes of a happy Eid. However, those wishes were not the only ones I wrote for my dear virtual friends. Wishes for a 3-days Eid just didn’t seem enough. I felt the need to wish them something for the year to come, or maybe the life to come. And since I didn’t know for whom exactly I was writing, I thought I’d write something general, like wishing that their dreams would come true, so here’s what I wrote down:

“Obviously, tomorrow is the first day of Eid Al-Fitr... So Happy Eid everyone, and may all your legitimate dreams come true…”

I stopped there to think, “Legitimate dreams”? Why would I use such a term? What scares me the most is that I spontaneously wrote it down. I didn’t really think about it.

I thought to myself…Have I reached to the point where even my dreams have to be legitimate? Am I overwhelmed with too many rules (some that I understand, and others that I find inexplicable) that it is being reflected in my dreams?

I then explained: you never know when your hopeless dreams might come true, that’s why you need to have legitimate ones. Yes, this makes so much sense... That was a diplomatic answer ( or shall I call it a diplomatic explanation for a question unasked), just like the ones I get every time I try to go around a rule that I do not fully understand...