This week brought several surprising events and surprising reactions as well. The government in Egypt decided to raise prices of fuel which increased the already increasing prices in Egyptian markets. At the end of the week, Donald Trump won the elections in the United States of America after he issued negative statements about Muslims and immigration. I thought that the two incidents will bring gloomy faces at work and streets. Yet, I was surprised to find my colleagues still smiling and telling jokes.
I think that the Egyptians tend to have such unexpected reactions in such very difficult situations. We may think like: the worst has already happened and we have faced our fears! There is no use losing our smiles as well!
It’s really nice to be positive and to put a smile on your face in difficult times. However, we need to work more than we talk at the current moment in order to restore Egypt as a great country like it was thousands of years ago. I hope this time we will take a positive action and not only an unexpected reaction.
