My Favorite Things
This song has been stuck in my head all day, so I decided to share it along with a list of my favorite things, like the smell of glue, for instance. “The Sound of Music” was probably one of the first movies I ever watched in my life. It is is also the one movie I’ve seen a million times. I don’t remember the first time, but I do remember my dad calling throughout our childhood to watch it.
Then, just before I started typing and as I watched the YouTube clip above, I remembered the hundred million times I sat mesmerized as I watched this scene as a child, and the favorite things of my childhood came rushing in.
The movies that my dad used to get us when we were kids, like “The Sound of Music” and “Grease.”
The rides to the airport that he used to take us on to see the airplanes, as we all sang “Ya baba khodna mishwar, wadeena 3ala ilmatar.”
The Movenpic strawberry flavoured icecream he used to get as treats.
The way he makes knafeh.
The long road trips to Bahrain, Hassa, Dammam, or Khobar, all spent listening to his collection of Nizar Qabani’s music.
The first time I ever saw the internet, when he showed me how it works.
The clothes and dolls he used to get me when ever he traveled, laying them on the bed across from me so that I find them when I wake up in the morning.
The way he took us out every Friday for lunch, for as long as I can remember.
The messy glue and silicone over the stuff he fixes.
The games he invented to entertain us, especially the one that involved rubber balls being thrown while we ran through the corridor.
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