city "Blahs"

busy busy busy, too many things at once. Too much adrenaline in my body; a lot of City “blahs” around. Dubai’s busy schedule is even busier, with all major events lining up one after the other rushing to happen all at once before the holy month next week. We just had City Scape last week, this week its Dana Gas, Gitex, and Mall of the Emirates, the largest mall in the middle east, and first indoor ski slope. Roads are busy, people are edgy. Some are jumping up and down with sheer excitement, but most of them are getting the City “Blahs”. Too much happening all at once, the crowd, the traffic jams, the inflation!! All is getting to people, too much happening to soon many can’t soak in all that’s going on at once. Therefore the City “blahs” occur. The “Blahs” probably started centuries ago… am guessing around the medieval period and dark ages. When illiteracy was high, and witch craft was popular. People back then in central Europe, were poor and illiterate (unlike us Arabs back then), which caused “blahs”, depression, and eventually witch craft to snap out of it. The “blahs” phenomena moved to the city as Cities around the world started to develop; now am guessing this happened, due to various reasons, (excuse my history) around World War 1. Poverty increased, people were depressed. During and post war people tried ways to snap out of this mode but unfortunately the “blahs” didn’t. With time and due to a lot of factors the “blahs fluctuated like the Wall Street on a Friday afternoon, now; the “blahs” remain to haunt us. The “blahs” have reached Dubai, and is spreading fast. It sometimes catches me early in the morning, when I am stuck in a traffic jam on my way to work, thinking of the few moments that are separating me from my morning coffee; and at other times, when I try to keep up with Dubai’s busy schedule. However, unlike thunder it strikes twice!!!! Currently I am working on remedies on how to avoid or overcome the City/Dubai “blahs”, therefore, if you have any ideas please help make Dubai a more peaceful place. Post in your ideas. Cheers. .arooj.