my little hedgehog

My name is Safwan Ali.

I graduated from college with a business management degree, and now after 6 years, I'm working in one of the well-known telecom companies in the Middle East.

Even though I never dreamed or pursued to work in such a job,

In fact, when I was little I wanted to become a successful football player.

yeah, I actually had the biggest admiration of Real Madrid football club.

I always bragged in front of my friends that I would become the next Zidan... I even played in his possession and copied his tricks and all,

but unfortunately, I failed to copy his volleyball legendary goal

* Flashback

"Safwan over here pass!!"

Yelled my friend, Karam, seeing I was surrounded by many defenders while he was running free I passed him the ball, then I ran ahead toward the other team's goal, he managed to dribble through the defenders, then he aimed at the goal and strikes the ball, the ball hit the crossbar and bounced back at my direction, instead of simply receiving the ball with my shoulder and then strike it, I thought I could try and copy Zidane’s volleyball, but unfortunately, I missed it, and one of the other team's players took it and had a successful counterattack against us, we lost sadly.

*end of flashback

Anyway Alhamdulillah, I have a secured job, and recently my mom had been talking about finding me a good wife.

Well, why not, after all marriage is a Sunna and half of a man's religion as they say.

However, I’m not thrilled about the process, you see ever since I was young, I’ve only been interested in sport, studying and learning new stuff all the time, when I was a teenager whenever my friends invites me to go out to meet girls, and go on dates I would refuse, because my father raised me the right Islamic way, he used to say that when the right time comes I’ll surly meet the right person, and to earn a good wife I must become a good man, that’s way I decided that I won’t date and hang out with stranger girls just for fun and to look cool, like most of my friends do, because this isn’t how a true Muslim behaves, if you’re serious about someone then you should make it clear and official by asking for their hand in marriage not by acting like kids and making them wait for nothing.

That’s why I spent most of my time studying and learning, because I knew that otherwise I would be wasting my time and energy in pointless teenage drama.

But on the other hand, the idea of a traditional marriage still sound odd to me, but well it wouldn’t hurt to try .

At first sight?

Here we are in house number 7.

Yeah, my mom made us visit 6 houses before this one to meet the parents and their daughter of course.

We meet the daughter and talk, to try to get to know each other and see whether she would be my match or not, but honestly, I'm really tired of this,

we are not picking a shirt or an item, this is marriage we are talking about! we can't get married just because our families know each other, or because I have enough money to buy a good house and fill it with furniture.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not judging our traditions nor I'm against it,