The world-famous novelist Nagib Mahfouz has often warned and condemned a defect prevalent among the young people. In particular, he called him "The Carelessness", in his autobiography: "Echoes of the Autobiography", which is a creative fiction text.
Being ungrateful for the blessings or the "Carelessness", or "Al-Bawqah" in Yemeni dialect which means being extravagant. It is a detectable description that always comes after an extravagant act or behavior. This is how Yemenis feel during seven years of war.
We feel deep remorse when our eyes overflow with tears whenever we hear the national anthem; Children, Mothers, Fathers, Young People, they all feel the same. As if we are the only people in the world who cry every time they hear their national anthem.
In the city of Dhamar, in the square of the Red Club, they sit with ecstasy around the fire and anthem, so they flocked with Care and Timidity; Parents, Children and Youth.
There was no announcement to celebrate the 59th Anniversary of the 26th, September Revolution, and no one from the local authority attended. There were no speeches, no words, no chants, only sincere celebration, as if it were a primitive ritual that frees all the conflicting and mixed feelings inside the soul from the sadness and primordial joy of fire, deep remorse, pleasure and anxiety, victory and defeat, pride and humiliation.
You can feel it all in the silence. The silence of all those who were standing around the fire, around the torch that young scouts used to prepare in Tahrir Square, on the eve of 26, September of every year. Around the torch which resembles Eid for all the Yemenis, from the north and south, Eid for all the catagories of people, around the torch of a Revolution that we are ungrateful for, and we did not know niether recognize its value untill we lost our homeland and our country became ruptured.
The celebration began and ended in minutes, to make everyone leave satisfied after their feelings had chilled out a little, as if they had just finished a "stone wedding to the sea".
