There is no doubt that the coronavirus changed our lives and affected our mental health. While we are all looking for a way to fight the coming depression, we found the Egyptian Director Mahmood Soliman’s post about his film and graduation project “Wakt Mostaktae.”.
Soliman said that this story happened 23 years ago, specifically in November 1997:
“I traveled with my friend Dr. Yehia Azmy who was the director of the film institute to present my film in a festival for cinema institutes and schools in Poitiers, France. Two days later while we were enjoying the cold weather, a beautiful lady excused us and asked if I was the director of the film.
The lady shook my hand warmly and thanked me for the film. She expressed her utter admiration to the woman’s advice to the young man’ To Live, You Must Always Wait for Something Beautiful to Come Along.'
She then hugged me, leaving me and Dr. Yehia looking at each other in surprise.
A long while after that, some friends introduced me to a friend of theirs, a poet whom I did not know personally then.
After a few minutes, the poet mentioned that he saw my film with his wife at “Hanager.” Theater and that the film influenced their life.
Because like any other couple, sometimes life gets too hard and stressful but whenever that happened one of them always reminded the other that ‘In order to live, you have to look forward to beautiful things.’
The happiness I felt when the poet and the lady expressed how my film impacted and affected their lives is indescribable but this is not why I am writing now. I am writing now because we all need these words to fight the fear and depression before fighting the virus; ‘To Live, You Must Always Wait for Something Beautiful to Come Along. And I am looking forward to beautiful things.”
Contributed by Sarah Goda
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