Sick and Tired of Jordanian "Ownership Rights"!

It’s so sad that I only find myself writing posts when I’m angry enough about something. I have been getting responses about my previous blogs saying they are too negative and only focus on negative behaviors of Jordanians. Well, I need to clarify this huge misunderstanding…

I love Jordan so much to an extent that I write this stuff!  Highlighting where we go wrong doesn’t mean I hate Jordan, on the contrary it’s because I LOVE IT SOO MUCH I WANT THE BEST FOR IT. I love Jordan that I want to be proud of it, I want my kids to know that Jordan went through hell to be what it is today. I want to prove to the world that we are not ignorant enough to refuse change; we can spot our weakness and want modification.

Long story short: Strong people are the people who know their faults and want to change them.

And step number one: is ACKNOWLEDGING where we go wrong. Acknowledging by spotting, understanding and realizing what the issue is. For that reason, I take the liberty to write things down for everyone who didn’t quit realize it yet, or did and don’t have the guts to say it out loud fearing consequences like Change!

This time I want to talk about the idea of Ownership in Jordan.

Apparently, all Jordanians are born with ownership rights to practically everything they choose, like the street their house is on, their work parking spot, the chair they were in 1 hour ago, the driver, the housekeeper, the coffee boy at work, their desk at work, the company’s car and so on (list goes on and on). Evidently, Jordanians think they are born with these ownership rights and are willing to defend them until a fight breaks loose or someone or something gets hurt or broken.

I seriously do not understand what or from where these rights came from? What’s to blame?

Is it the parents? .. “hayaty kol ishy bil dinya ilak?” or because the parents themselves act this way? Im voting for the second choice.

Is it selfishness? Probably.. either the fact that families in Jordan have too many children at an average of 7 people a family where children don’t have enough to share and/or are not taught to share OR because they have to share everything that when something is given to them .. its suddenly WWF smack down.

Is it ignorance? Probably, I don’t think people know that all this stuff mentioned above is not for them to own and/or doesn’t belong to anyone EVER.

Its just beyond me really.. I cant justify any of those actions but say I am sick and tired of people acting this way. I am sick and tired of feeling violated because of this. (off topic for one second: I got this email today of Bill Cosby’s sayings.. and I liked the way he portrayed things.. everything he said started with .. I’m sick and tired) therefore, please join me if you want, in feeling the following:

I’m sick and tired.. of double parking in Jordan. Apparently walking is a sin and no one should park and walk to get something they need.

I’m sick and tired.. of pedestrians crossing the highway whenever where ever they please, knowing that there’s a pedestrian bridge that cost 1000s of Jordanian tax money built for them and is literally 1 meter away. Apparently (wait you didn’t know this) crossing a highway back and forth and jumping over a 2 meter rail is BETTER than walking through the bridge to the other side. Actually quit to think of it, it burns more calories .. so if you want to loose 5 kgs stop using the pedestrian bridge and risk death (Jordanian new health tip)

I’m sick and tired, of our neighbors at work in Shmeisany. I am seriously so angry. Apparently the lady that owns the house right across us owns the whole street and their parking spots all day and all night. Every time someone parks their car for a work meeting or something, they get a flat tire. So word to the wise.. don’t park your car anywhere in Amman infront of a house which you don’t own. You have committed a dreadful sin of using 2 meters of their house front view, your soul will be condemned forever if that person sees your car parked on the street which is GOVERNMNET PROPERTY!

I think I'll stop here.. I may actually further write about pedestrian crossing and parking spots later, but you get the idea and I guess you feel the same way.

If not.. please know this and I say this with all the love in the world… You are not born with ownership rights to everything.. Kindly take a moment to think about it.