Dubai

Dubai is a cool city that has so many things and a lot to offer. I used to live in it for a few years, but I had to leave it and move to somewhere else. Dubai was just not what I was looking for unfortunately. I was looking for a free country that is full of life, nature and beauty, and open minded people that are liberal. Dubai was not that, it was only half of these things I wanted. It would take Dubai 50 years for the people there to freely live like how Americans and Canadians do. It may be a cool city with a great skyline and tallest building in the whole world, but what is the point when half of the country is closed minded? So Dubai doesn't have it all. That is why I had to leave it even though it became my home.

One day I saw a man and woman kissing in ''Dubai Mall'' but it was fast. I bet they were afraid someone might see them; Because it's illegal in Dubai. I was in one of the electric stairs and going to a downer level than the one i was in, and that's when they were in front of me. They made out quick like for 5 seconds. Yeah it sounds stupid to care for just a kiss but when you are in Dubai, it is illegal to kiss in public. Can you imagine? How come an opened minded city can be so closed minded? Sometimes I didn't understand and I just got confused. Is Dubai a free country or is it closed minded one? I sometimes did not know, because you would feel like you are living a life that all the people in cool cities are living, but at the same time we have these stupid rules that hold us back. So Dubai is stuck in the middle. For example, between Europe/USA/Canada and Saudi Arabia. All I wanted was to live in a normal cool city without the closed minded rules and people. I did not want to be stuck in the middle, it was really hard. Because sometimes I was happy and feeling that I lived in a free county, but then Dubai slapped me in the face every time with something closed minded. Then I become surprised and wonder ''How can that happen? Aren't we supposed to be in Dubai?'' But Dubai is like that. That was Dubai.

Once in a New Year's eve, I was waiting in the crowded queue at the metro and there was this beautiful foreign woman. She was dressed up for a party and there were these closed minded people who started to make fun of her in Arabic so she won't understand what they were saying. They were like ''Aw She is late for the Nightclub'' and laughing at her. I felt mad because it was so stupid of them like they never saw a woman goes to a party before, and like they never went to a club at all. So I was like... Ugh! This is Dubai. Open minded people and closed minded ones are equal in numbers. Half of Dubai were opened minded while the other half were not.

Don't get me wrong, I like Dubai and as I said before it was my home for few years. But I can't help but hope that someday we can all be understanding to each other and leave people live the way they want without interfering. Of course Dubai is an Islamic country but it can be more understanding to others. It would be nice if they at least let the not-Muslims people be a little free to do what they want as long they are not hurting themselves nor others, so they can feel more like home.