Kuwait is a small country in the North of
the Arabian gulf (Persian gulf in western text), in fact it is smaller than the
state of New Hampshire, and surrounded by the trouble makers of the world, I mean
all what we are missing is North Korea to complete the good, the bad, the ugly,
the worst, and the evil , of course Kuwait being Clint Eastwood. And here is
the maps which best explains it.
I started with this introduction to tell
you the strangest dream I ever had, it all started when Kuwaitis were so fed up
with their neighbors that they decided to move this piece of land away from
this region, and most of the suggestions were to pull it to Scandinavia
somewhere here( as shown in the map)
A walking distance from Denmark and Norway
with nice, peaceful and good looking neighbors. Now the last justification
caused women to hold demonstrations and slowly convinced the men one way or
another to put off this idea. The second option was Oceania down all the way
close to New Zealand, as shown in the map
The motion had the majority vote. Few days
later I could see the machinery arriving to carry out the job, consisting of
huge drilling machines thousand of them and started working immediately 24
hours a day. Meanwhile the politicians were telling the people the time left to
move and the progress of the job ,while foreigners were heading back to their
countries and a few Kuwaitis whom we thought were patriots and will stick with
their piece of land also fled the country. Day by day the population was
getting less and less with no traffic jams and no long queues in the
ministries, really speaking things were getting better and life was less
stressful.
The promised day has arrived, and you can
see the huge tugs from the distance with their engines working at max. power,
as we started feeling the tremble in the ground, and a minute later we were
off, we were moving in the gulf and everybody was on the coast watching where
we were. After only a few miles from our journey we heard those loud explosions
from where Kuwait was located originally and everybody wondered what they are,
until a government official came to explained what is happening, he said: the
bad, ugly and the worst started a war between them over the Kuwaiti oil,
everybody was in shock with their eyes almost out of surprise, saying: you mean
we left the oil behind, how are going to survive there? The official replied,
well we could only remove the crust, maybe there are few pockets here or there
but we have to explore again, it only took few minutes before people started
throwing themselves in the sea to swim back a shore. My wife looked at me as if
saying what are we going to do now? I said we stick with our land no matter
what, let us wait and see, the official said do not worry we have plenty of
food and water.
Weeks later we reached to our new home, the
weather was perfect with no heat of 130 deg. F any more in fact it was raining
something we have not seen for a while, the tugs left and we were on our own.
Without delay we all started drilling for oil but all our efforts went in vain,
so we gave up and started fishing the old Kuwaiti profession before oil. Life
was slow and we were depending on New Zealanders since our money was not worth anything.
Soon electricity was gone since the diesel inventories finished, and life
became similar to the 1940's all quiet at 7 in the night and wake up early to
go fishing or to the market, now of course a growing number of people resented
this way of life and wanted to go back but knew it is impossible you just
cannot go back and paste it.
I found a good job of making desert camps
for the New Zealanders with camel and horse rides, I made enough money for my
daily bread, in fact they loved it and more of them adventurers were coming and
having fun in the desert. I loved this way of life with no phones or internet;
especially the kids were daily going to the beach or helping me with the camel
rides, and in the weekend we would take the ferry to New Zealand to buy
vegetables and spend the day in their gorgeous country. But as we say in Arabic
the beautiful is never complete and perfect, the Australians whom lost a lot
from tourism came to us with an offer we could not refuse, the western desert
for electricity we of course accepted, and my job vanished in process. The
Australians did not waste any time and started building roads, hotels and
resorts in our desert, to the point that we thought that is nice let us bring
those tugs again and move the country to Hawaii, that how cheap we started to
get in our thinking. Few days later the Australians approached me saying how
about you get your job back, that camel of yours cannot be controlled, of
course I said thanks to my camel Itrees whom I hated so much but I was making a
living with him, in fact I was getting rich so I got Itrees a wife and was on
my way to establish a micro economy, with staff and office.
I woke up almost standing up from this
dream, thinking thank GOD I do not have to feed that smelly camel or walk 2
kilometers to reach that camp, but after a cup of coffee and watching the news
,,that dream did not seem to be that bad and I dare anybody to explain it!!!!
