What are Jordanians angry at?
It seems to me that we Jordanians are angry at something, something that makes us so furious, but what is it? Seriously what made smiles abandon the Jordanian face?
In the middle of this mysterious state of anger we are looking for someone to expose our anger and spell it on that person. Look closely and you will notice that everybody is staring at you for no reason; it’s like that they are scanning you trying to find that victim to rage in his/her face.
You could be a normal guy wearing very normal clothes with a regular haircut and walking in an ordinary way but still you are the star of that neighborhood, everybody is staring and examining you. Drivers, bystanders, shops owners, kids, old men, women, and even pets they all are looking.
After finding their stress-ball its time to expose the anger, if you are driving and someone cut you off, don’t even think to press car’s horn or object, cause the mistaken driver will start shouting and cursing you even that its their mistake, its like he/she will pull a shoot gun or bazooka and shoot you, you are his/her long-time enemy.
Ibrahim told about his cousin and I felt so bad for him, the law in this country is way too stupid, if anyone through their selves on your car, even if they fall from the sky and landed on your parked car it’s your fault, you are a criminal now.
And this stupid law encouraged Jordanians to leave their children playing and running around in the streets without any monitoring, streets are made for cars not a children playground, not a place for a walk, many times I came across couple of Jordanian men walking in the middle of the street, and when you press the horn they look at the car surprised: its a car!!!!!!!!!
I understand that a child is precious, but if it is really precious you wouldn’t leave him running at night in the street. Now Ibrahim’s cousin is the long-time-waited enemy of that family and will have spend some time in the jail; if not years just because some kid was playing on the highway and his father found it outrages that a car was running on that highway where his kid used to play.
Your life could be screwed up just because you live in Jordan, while you are driving you could be heading to a problem that might destroy your life. Even living in this country can drag you into problems, once I had a neighbor who constantly tried to occupy my parking spot and the problem is that he is a lawyer, a man who is supposed to defend the law not to break it, for no reason he wants to hurt me.
Whether its work related, financial reasons, stressed relations or whatsoever Jordanians are furious and there is no room for forgiveness… I guess.
Do we really hate each other and can’t stand each other?
