On my way to work, I usually make my postponed calls with my girlfriends who are now all over the world;
She is in New York and the time is right now, and this is in Egypt. It may be very early, but she inevitably woke up to prepare her children for school, and I may have a state of desire to be silent and listen to music.
This was my daily routine until that morning when I logged into the Clubhouse app, my walk time became the perfect time for reality radio as I decided to call it, I open the app and wander around its rooms looking for something that needs attention or laughter, whichever I find!
At first I did not want to talk, I just entered and listened, and then I did not feel myself until I raised my hand to tell about how I was preparing peasant chives with baladi ghee..I spoke enthusiastically and the others listened, then they exchanged questions with me and I answered and arrived at my home.
The first of those rooms that I entered were with the beginning of the spread of the application in the Arab world, after the advertisement given by "Elon Musk" about him, which caused an uproar and doubled users within days.
I was excited when I saw her title "How can you cook rice without being ruined by water ... I laughed from my heart for minutes as I listened to men I know telling about their experiences and experiences with rice and adding practical advice to keep it from the great scourge of any novice chef." This is measured by the cup and our friend advises you to ventilate the pot.
At first I did not want to talk, I just entered and listened, and then I only felt myself as I raised my hand to tell about how I was preparing the peasant chives with baladi ghee..I spoke enthusiastically and the others listened, then they exchanged questions with me and I answered them and arrived at my house, and the room continued, and I completed my homework. With the headphone closed in my ears, the microphone kept up with my daughters in their requests and answered briefly to my husband, but all my senses were with the room visitors, which gave me completely new information about those I know some of whom I know and why and perhaps I will never meet most of them.
Hours later, I rushed to the nice club in the morning and gave up my daily calls, and found a room about my favorite books that was light and varied, and most of its visitors were from Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and these countries are almost the most present there, so you hardly see a room empty of them, while the rooms in Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon increased in the days. I finished the way while listening, then decided to ask for the word and told about the atmosphere of reading and my favorite books and about my place for reading in the city in which I live, and finally I got to my work, and with difficulty I got out of the pleasant atmosphere of narration in this application after I was convinced of the impossibility of producing useful work while listening to His stories ..
In the evening and at the time allocated for walking, I was in a hurry to leave the house and its clamor, and I ran to the clubhouse and found a discussion about immigration and travel in which I did not know a single person, I entered to know the experiences of others, then I immediately raised my hand and stayed for two hours as my sport time was limited to one hour, but This time, it was extended to reveal the public club of tales.
And after I finished my intervention, I noticed that I had given a huge amount of personal information to completely strangers to me, and if before that I listened to them and knew about them, what made me imagine the lives of each of them, in addition to the voice that I listened to, there is a personal picture and a number of interconnected stories .. It is an integrated virtual relationship. Now ... for days I have been looking for opportunities to take time for anecdotes.
I asked myself, what is this magic that makes us talk like this in an open space with strangers or even with those we know little at work or from friendships around us !?
Why do our intentions change before and after the start, and what happens when we press that button that enters us with other people's worlds !?
Is it the desire to reveal only, or show off what we have, or is it the euphoria of sharing and the beauty of having a voice and telling what we want even if we are not !?
In one of the rooms, a woman I know personally spoke, who gave a sermon about a subject and she was very wise and reasoned, but what I know about her is that her life is complete chaos at the same point that she mentioned in the discussion, and at that time I wondered if she was fabricating that wisdom or if this is her actual opinion. And she can not apply it in her life?
I noticed that the Arab rooms are limited to lightness in the morning, such as reading fortunes and those associated with jokes, drinking coffee, exchanging songs and morning thoughts, while the night rooms are slightly hot and inclined to politics and its paths, and in the middle of the day it is a playground for the world of businessmen and buying and selling stocks, and between them comes interests such as reading And libraries and raising children, and the topic most attended on a daily basis and may be repeated more than once a day is migration abroad or return to the homeland !?
Despite the simplicity of pressing a button on your keyboard to enter the lives of many people across the world, perhaps this application surpassed those that preceded it because it carries the soul of each participant through his voice ... that imprint that no one else possesses and transmits through his small icon some of his natures, psychological state, circumstances and future as well.
This title summarizes a lot of the conditions of Arab youth and announces that they are going through years after their revolutions.
The obsession with immigration has risen above the ideas of stability and the establishment of successful projects in their countries, and it is strange that this dialogue is always followed by when they return to their homelands and do they return after completing the education of their children or settle in those countries that received them?
Do they dissolve into the fabric of countries that gave them safety and stability, or do they cling to their longing for homelands that displaced them !?
Over the next few days, my presence decreased after I noticed that it takes from family time, reading and other applications, as well as real communication, but on the contrary, I found friends on it all day long, and when I say that I do not exaggerate, they occupy it in their homes and accompany him in the car and work and during their visits as if they have internalized that idea that Make them a living part of the lives of others, and their day became a series of rooms, so does this indicate the extent of their misery or the beauty of that space really !?
What also occupied me was the transformation of many room managers into broadcasters with great control, anger and control, despite being an open space for any form of narration in free time, these people consider themselves the owners of the pulpit and those who have the guillotine and the scissors of the watchdog, so that limits the time to a few minutes, but the strangest one said that The time is only 30 seconds!
How, my friend, do you think you will hear an anecdote about a subject with a line headline in 30 seconds !?
The funniest thing is that the participants forget that they are in a room with strangers, so they go out of the simple question of the room to the very minute details of their lives, forgetting that they are on the air.
Despite the simplicity of pressing a button on your keyboard to enter the lives of many people across the world, perhaps this application surpassed those that preceded it because it carries the soul of each participant through his voice ... that imprint that no one else has and transmits through his small icon some of his natures, psychological state, circumstances and future as well.
It is also an open space for collecting secrets that you may initially think is normal, but if we imagine together that a person wants to know about the latest complete information, he should only follow him in his rotation between those rooms to know the type of his coffee, the walkway in which he spends his hour dedicated to sports, and the best Food places in the city in which they live, his opinion of the tyrannical manager, his stories with marriage and his lean years, and finally how many hours a day he sleeps ... and thus he collects his information and categorizes it to complete the picture .. So does the clubhouse continue to spread, or does the theory of fascination with the new keep days and passes?