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His father is Egyptian, he used to work for the Egyptian Army, later on in life the father went to Q8 to get a better job and create hope for a better future for his family.
Success was his work wise, his wife died after their 3rd child called R3 a boy. R2 and R1 boy and girl were old enough to be influenced by the death of their mother.
Working two jobs a day, the hard working man needs a wife and a life to give to his kids and wife.
Life goes on.
He re-marries gets a kid, divorce, re-re-marries, divorce, re-re-re-marries gets a girl and twins (boy and girl) seven kids to worry about.
Along the way R1 gets married and has kids of her own; Kids that are as old as her fathers', drama enters the family to stay.
Stay it did.
R2 one of the funniest people I've met goes to college in Egypt where we got to be more than brothers. He has fun for the 1st few months. The culture shocks him, drugs followed, living on his own the diluted boy learns his life's toughest lessons with addiction, frustration, depression, bitterness and hate.
Failure, his nemeses became his best friend.
An experience he definitely learned something from, what it is that he learned I don’t know.
Father hasn't learnt his lesson.
Now it's time for R3 to go to college, he comes to Egypt. Living with his older brother he learnt a lot form him and his friends, but he gained things that he shouldn't have. An experience that made him an outsider, that made him loose respect for his brother and country.
Anger grew, he's now about to finish college. Drugs made him hit rock-bottom.
He's done with college; damage has been done and had left a deep scar that will never heal an experience so devastating that thinking of it makes me have the blackest and darkest ideas.
Detoxify he did, physically, but mentally? Moving 1 step ahead and 2 steps behind was the scenario. Blamed the environment surrounding him. To an extent he's right. But he's not.
Supportive and understanding I was, yet it wasn't enough.
I believe that changing environments will help a lot psychologically, agree with me he did. Change became his ray of hope. 3 steps ahead now.
Authorities are passport freaks. If you’re a young man with 1 year left to finish college YOU CAN'T LEAVE THE COUNTRY UNDER ANY SURCOMSTANCE.
Military service is mandatory. After finishing college one needs to go trough a period of 2-3 month of paper work. One shall wait till the decision is reached exempted, or not.
Even after exemption, one still needs a "Traveling Permit" to leave the country.
My friend got his exemption, but still waiting.
The ray of hope is getting wider and stronger.
The nightmare is almost over.
After 5 years of living in Egypt 2 of which as a prisoner. That experience scared the father, R1, R2 and R3. The damage has been done. Will it heal? Will the suffering end? What about R3? He still has 2 or 3 years left in college.
I hope it will.
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So what you are saying is, the best rehab for a drug abusing young man is to leave Egypt?
When will visectomies ever become popular in Egypt?
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