Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Who is your "role model "?

I can't remember how many times I have been asked this question since I was five , by my family , by my friends , by my teachers , and by an innumerable number of strangers . It have been asked so many times it has almost lost it's meaning to me , and for many times I had given the same overused answer " I don't know " , unless the person would require an answer and insist that I have a role model and that I have to ADMIT it, sometimes even shout in my face and threaten with whatever they can do to harm me if I don't admit who is my role model ( which should be considered as an act of ideological terrorism ) and if they don't get the answer to that enigma that have troubled philosophers since the down of men and which would have ended all wars , ended poverty and kept earth stable in it's orbit around the sun .they would just leave - luckily - while mumbling about how our generation is the worst since the creation of men and how Egypt is gonna become a Somalian colony by the time we are twenty etc...

Back on topic , the reason I never reely had a role model is - I guess - because I never had a real goal (except for one that I have had my whole life, but I don't need row models to guide me for that goal ) in life, because I have very high standards for a role model ( they have to be perfect , period ) . And because I realise I have some boundaries and I don't want to choose a role model then not excel at all they excelled  at ( I know there is a contradiction in the last two sentences , that's partly why I have no role model . I also don't see myself on the path of any other man, and partly in defiance to that specific stranger whom I mentioned in the first paragraph  .

 I have no role model , but I do have an ever growing list of people I respect and/or have inspired me ( I am skipping the religious and family characters, it too personal ) . 

Tesla's most famous legacy , the Tesla Coils
Nicola Tesla : One of the founders of modern age physics and the man who was ahead of his age by at least a hundred years ( some of his ideas are just starting to be researched now ) , the real and first inventor of the radio ( but it wasn't admitted till after he died so Marconi still was the one to keep the Nobel prize) , the radar, Tesla coils , the Columbus egg  and over 200 other inventions , he was the first to create artificial thunder coming from the sky, his researches permitted the creation of X-rays and hundreds of modern day machines . But what actually made him on the top of the people who inspired me is because of his researches on wireless electricity and electromagnetic fields .( Tesla appears on the 100 Serbian Dinar)

Utopia , the only long novel by A.K.T



A.K.Towfiq : A modern Egyptian writer , and he was the reason I started loving reading and his series and novels are the main reason I know most of the people on this list . Aside from that , he was one of the people who taught me how to think ( I started reading his books at a really young age ) and left a huge imprint on my life and personality.



The 25 jan rebels : Needless to say , these guys changed ( and are changing ) not just my life , but the way I see that life .

Napoleon :
Gorge Orwell :
C.A.Crumlish

I'll keep editing this post and add more when I have time ( the list is huge ) 

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