Say a little prayer

For once in my life, after a really long time, so long I can't even remember how long, I'm not trying to provoke you. Just this once, I'm not trying to bring out the bad side in you just so that I feel good about myself. Just this once, I ask you to keep all your hatred for me aside, and say a pure word for a very very good harmless human being, who, right now, is not okay.

Her name's Nahla Nainar, the author of a book called The Town of Fools, Gulf Times' Features Editor.

A few days ago she fell sick, and later, it was discovered she had a clot in the brain. She is in the hospital at the moment.

I don't know how it happens, how you do it, when bad things happen to good people, when good things happen to bad people. I really don't know how it works. But I do believe in good things, in good people, in God, in purity.

You don't know her, you obviously don't even care. I have had the pleasure of meeting her. You know how there are those few people in this world, totally the opposite of me? When you just see them, or when you enter a place they're physically present in, you just get this positive vibe, a good vibe. They have this positive aura around them. Yep, totally the opposite of me, that's her.

I don't know, if prayers work. I don't know if there really is a God, or is it just my belief to not feel totally all alone in this world. I don't know why miracles happen, who makes them happen. But somehow, they do.

Just say a good word for her. Just this once. After today, I promise, I'll be back to trying to make all of you hate my very existence.

Ro.