Look Younger, Live in Sharm

The more you live in Sharm El Sheikh the younger you will look. This might sound a bit like an ad or a stupid saying, but it was what I discovered myself after living and working for one year in Sharm El Sheikh. The reason why it could be hard to believe my initial statement or at least hard to appreciate its full meaning and the extent of youngness you will look by living there could be easily understood. If that statement was true, then how come we never heard about it before? If it was true, then why all those women spending thousands of dollars on all sorts of medical stuff, surgeries and artificial things to look younger? Well, sometimes there are secrets or let's say less known things that have high value in them but are just not known but to a few. This discovery of mine is one of them.

After a few days of arriving at Sharm to work there, I learnt the actual age of one of my colleagues. I always thought he was actually younger than that. It was surprising to know that with such young looks his age was actually higher. This single incident did not lead me yet to my above mentioned discovery, I never related it yet to him having lived for almost 9 years in Sharm. I thought it was just him that looked younger than his age. Later on, another colleague of mine I also discovered her age, and she did look younger than her real age! Still, I did not see the connection between those two cases and that it was due to their being in Sharm El Sheikh. It was not till later on after spending a couple of months in Sharm El Sheikh that the reality downed upon me after a number of other cases that I've seen one after the other pointing to such a discovery.

I started discovering that other people also, working with me in Sahrm, looked younger than their real ages and most of them have lived in Sharm for years (4 years, 7 years, 9 years maximum). The interesting thing was that when I used to return back to Cairo in my monthly holiday my relatives used to say I looked younger! Oh my, look what just a couple of months spent at Sharm could do! Then I realized the truth about the matter and that living in Sharm does make you look younger. Of course I did not look that much younger in comparison to those who have spent many years there. I remember one of those working with me there he looked really really much younger than his age to an amazing extent. You would never be able to guess his real age. And yes, he has been working in Sharm for years. It was really amazing. I guess that single example was the one that made the matter all down upon me.

Well, at the end, you do not have to take my word for it. I have never read about it nor even those who live in Sharm talk about it, I am not sure if they even realize it! But sure I've discussed it with some of my colleagues there but they did not give it a lot of attention or importance. But seeing how many women all over the world spend money and take medical risks in order to look younger I knew there would be many interested in what I found out during my one-year stay at Sharm El Sheikh.

As for the reason behind this, I do not know it. But perhaps the absence of pollution in Sharm El Sheikh, the excellent weather, the scenery and everything in the environment there is behind this 'anti-aging' phenomenon. Perhaps there could be other deeper reasons too that are beyond me such as for instance the presence of some sort of rays or elements in the environment there with specific amounts that helps the body look younger. This might need some scientists to work on though. Anyway, regardless of the reasons behind this phenomenon I noticed in Sharm, the thing is it does work and the hundreds of people living and working in Sharm are live examples present out there to prove it. All you have to do is remember to have a friendly conversation with a waiter or someone working in Sharm and ask him how long has he been in Sharm and how old he is. You'll be surprised!

Colorful Splash

Today I woke up early. I went near the beach. I looked from above. I could see colored fish swimming in the transparent water. They looked so lovely. I watched for a while. It's a nice thing to do. Something I'll surely miss and perhaps only fully appriciate when I leave the place.

Day to Day

Umm, I've started settling down now. Things are becoming more stable as time goes on. I'm starting to get used to things going on around here and I've adapted to life at the Red Sea.

At Last

Oh, at last I'm getting back to Sharm God willing. I've been wanting to get back ever since I left. Really? Well, umm ... actually I did not want to leave in the first place.

The bus ticket is in the pocket of my pants now and so are the other ID cards. Now I'm ready for travel to get back to my beloved Sharm. Quite a charm, huh?

The bus should start moving at 9am. Probably It'll arrive at something around 3:30pm at Sharm.

Back Back

Preparing now to get back once more to Sharm El Shaikh. I'll get my feesh we tashbeeh at 3pm (God willing) today as the man at the police office told me yesterday. Then I'll go off to the bus station in hope of finding a bus going to Sharm today, I mean tonight. If not, then probably I'll book a ticket for a bus travelling tomorrow or perhaps then I can just take the company bus, which is safter and less prone to security check-points that keep annoying you all the way to Sharm and back from there. So wish me luck to find a ticket, or wish me luck if I don't. See you at Sharm.

A Break

Finally I came back to Cairo once again. I had not stayed at Sharm but a few days to start with. Actually, I didn't want to get back to Cairo, but ... . Anyway, now I'm in Cairo and preparing for leaving perhaps today, this night.

Days After

Right from the first night I've been here, I wanted to jam my blog with lots of experiences I'd been through and things I sow. Yet, I was unlucky enough to find there were problems with accessing the net on my arrival. Fortunately, the silent spell was finally broken today, and the net started 'speaking' to us once more. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to recollect and collect all what I've been through during this very short yet rich period of time here at Sharm, nor am I sure if I'll ever be able to explain the things with the same vivid detail I had experienced them with. Yet I believe not all is lost, and at least I will be able to provide a glimpse of what is happening and what has happened during the past few days at Sharm and along the way to it.

By the way, I'll be back to Cairo next Monday God willing, on a short (perhaps one-day) work assignment. To tell the truth, I do not even want to go back to Cairo next week, I would have preferred to stay at Sharm, but I must go. Anyway, I'll be back at Sharm soon God willing. Perhaps the worst thing of it all (getting back to Cairo, then returning once more to Sharm) is the 6 or 7 hour bus that takes you from Sharm to Cairo or Cairo to Sharm (Sharm to Cairo is even worse, because of the harsher security checkpoints, but more on this later; actually that was the first thing I wanted to write about in my blog from the first night).

Hours Before

It's just a couple of hours till I get the bus on my way to Sharm. I should reach Sharm El Shaikh about 24 hours, more or less, from now. Pretty exciting, huh?

Second Trip

I'm now just about one day away from going for the second time in my life to Sharm. I'm excited about the trip and my coming days there God willing. I'm still trying to figure out what I'll be doing there during my stay. Perhaps I'll just sketch out the activities I'll be undertaking and then things would get clearer as time goes on.