Retirement tax
For no reason. One day I rode on a bus with a man. He was an old man who showed signs of wisdom and experience. As soon as I sat next to him, he said to me, “Are you from....?” I told him: How did you know, even though I lived my life in...... My dialect was mixed between these dialects? He opened a small notebook for me with numbers, letters, and names. He said to me: I went to Turkey, to Syria, and to Kuwait, and I worked in such-and-such and such-and-such a place, and I know many people, and I noticed that it was because of his mixing. He was extremely generous to Arabs and Bedouins in particular, as he honored me despite his poor condition. But he seemed happy to me and told me: Get to know people to be happy.
From the book Life Skills by Ibrahim Al-Shamlan
