قضينا شبابنا ننتظر أن «تصحو الأمة»! فجاءتنا الصحوة، بكل ما فيها من وعظ ونباح وزهد في الحياة، حتى اقتنعنا أن الموسيقى حرام، والضحك سفاهة، والورد بدعة... والحياة امتحان لن ينجح به أحد..
صحونا بعدها لنجد أنفسنا نلبس الرمادي، نفكر بالأبيض والأسود، ونستحي من الحُب، ونرتجف من الأسئلة لكي لا نخرج من الملة!
ثم نامت الصحوة، لكننا لم نستيقظ بعدها...
انقضى نصف عمر هذا الجيل في خطب الجمعة، والنصف الثاني يبدو أنه سيضيع في زحمة التحويلات المرورية والحفريات التي لا تنتهي، والبنيان الذي يعلو بلا ظل، يطارد الشمس ويترك الناس في عتمة التكييفات.
جيل الغفوة... نعم! لا صحا من غفلته، ولا انغمس في حداثته...
جيل عالق بين فتاوٍ قديمة وجسور معلّقة.. بين جهاز تسجيل الكاسيت وصوت الحفار اللي فوق رايع وما يسكت.
جيل كان يُمنع من السينما، واليوم يُغرق في إعلانات أفلام لم يشاهدها لأنه عالِق في مخرج 14 بسبب حفريات «تطويرية» لا نعرف أين تبدأ وأين تنتهي...
جيل كانت هويته تُحدَّد من على المنبر، ومستقبله من مجلس التخطيط، وحاضره؟
مجرد صورة سيلفي على إنستغرام يكتب تحتها: «لا تعليق».
جيل يريد أن يعيش، لكنه لا يعرف كيف بعد أن ضاعت مفردات الحياة بين «لا يجوز»، و«الرجاء الانتظار حتى تنتهي أعمال الصيانة»... وستصبح الحياة أجمل...
جيل صبر على الصحوة، لكنه لم يُكافأ بالنهضة... لأنهم كبار على الوظيفة وصغير على التقاعد؟...
جيل أُقنع أن الدنيا دار ممر، ثم اكتشف أن الممر مغلق للتحسينات إلى إشعارٍ آخر...
والسؤال الآن:
هل ننتظر نصف العمر الثالث في الاستدامة؟
أم نكتفي بتحديث تطبيق البلاغات ونبلّغ عن العمر الذي ضاع بين الغفوة والحفرة ليحسب إقفال بلاغنا مع مؤشرات الأداء..
وفاء الرشيد
جيل الغفوة... من الصحوة إلى الحفرة...
27 يوليو 2025 - 00:05
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We spent our youth waiting for the "awakening of the nation"! Then the awakening came to us, with all its preaching, barking, and asceticism towards life, until we were convinced that music is forbidden, laughter is foolishness, and flowers are an innovation... and life is a test that no one will pass...
We then woke up to find ourselves dressed in gray, thinking in black and white, ashamed of love, and trembling at questions so as not to stray from the faith!
Then the awakening fell asleep, but we did not wake up afterwards...
Half of this generation's life has passed in Friday sermons, and the second half seems to be wasted in the chaos of traffic diversions and never-ending excavations, with buildings rising without shade, chasing the sun and leaving people in the darkness of air conditioning.
A generation of slumber... yes! It neither woke from its stupor nor immersed itself in modernity...
A generation caught between old fatwas and suspended bridges... between cassette recorders and the sound of the digger above that never stops.
A generation that was banned from the cinema, and today is drowned in advertisements for movies it hasn't seen because it's stuck at Exit 14 due to "development" excavations whose starting and ending points we do not know...
A generation whose identity was defined from the pulpit, its future from the planning council, and its present?
Just a selfie on Instagram with the caption: "No comment."
A generation that wants to live, but doesn't know how after the vocabulary of life got lost between "not allowed" and "please wait until maintenance is completed"... and life will become more beautiful...
A generation that endured the awakening, but was not rewarded with a renaissance... because they are too old for the job and too young for retirement?...
A generation convinced that this world is a passage, only to discover that the passage is closed for improvements until further notice...
And the question now is:
Are we waiting for the third half of life in sustainability?
Or do we settle for updating the reporting app and report the life that was lost between slumber and the pit so that our report closure counts with the performance indicators...
We then woke up to find ourselves dressed in gray, thinking in black and white, ashamed of love, and trembling at questions so as not to stray from the faith!
Then the awakening fell asleep, but we did not wake up afterwards...
Half of this generation's life has passed in Friday sermons, and the second half seems to be wasted in the chaos of traffic diversions and never-ending excavations, with buildings rising without shade, chasing the sun and leaving people in the darkness of air conditioning.
A generation of slumber... yes! It neither woke from its stupor nor immersed itself in modernity...
A generation caught between old fatwas and suspended bridges... between cassette recorders and the sound of the digger above that never stops.
A generation that was banned from the cinema, and today is drowned in advertisements for movies it hasn't seen because it's stuck at Exit 14 due to "development" excavations whose starting and ending points we do not know...
A generation whose identity was defined from the pulpit, its future from the planning council, and its present?
Just a selfie on Instagram with the caption: "No comment."
A generation that wants to live, but doesn't know how after the vocabulary of life got lost between "not allowed" and "please wait until maintenance is completed"... and life will become more beautiful...
A generation that endured the awakening, but was not rewarded with a renaissance... because they are too old for the job and too young for retirement?...
A generation convinced that this world is a passage, only to discover that the passage is closed for improvements until further notice...
And the question now is:
Are we waiting for the third half of life in sustainability?
Or do we settle for updating the reporting app and report the life that was lost between slumber and the pit so that our report closure counts with the performance indicators...


