Prosopagnosia ; when everyone is a stranger.

Have you ever heard about 'Prosopagnosia'?
Prosopagnosia (pro-suh-pag-NO-zhuh) is 1. An inability to recognize the faces of familiar people, typically as a result of damage to the brain. . When everyone is a stranger.

I am reading this book called "Holding up the universe" written by the amazing Jennnifer Niven and It is tackling this really interesting psychological diagnosis while actually letting her readers experience it.

" Imagine walking into a room full of strangers, people who doesn't mean anything to you because you don't know their names or histories. Then Imagine going to school or work or, worse, your own home, where you should know everyone, only the people there look like strangers too." -Holding up the universe.

It is said that " Testing of 1,600 individuals found that 2 percent of the general public may have face-blindness and a German group has recently made a similar estimate. It’s conceivable that millions of people may have symptoms consistent with prosopagnosia, without even realizing it.”

Imagine how hard this is for anyone facing such diagnosis and how even harder it is if he have no idea why he isn't recognizing anyone.

"That's what it's like for me: I walk into a room and I don't know anyone. That's every room, everywhere. I get by on how a person walks. By gestures. By voices. By the hair. I learn people by identifiers. I tell myself, dusty has ears that stick out and a red-brown Afro, and then I memorize this fact, so it helps me find my little brother, but I can't actually call up an image of him and his big ears and his Afro unless he's in front of me. REMEMBERING PEOOLE IS LIKE THIS SUOERPWER EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE  but me." -Holding up the universe

However, who said only people with poropagnosia can feel such feeling? Don't you sometimes feel that you are in the wrong place? Those people aren't like you anymore? You have changed, but in different directions. "MATURITY MY FRIEND."

Every step we take, every action we make, every situation we face identify us, show us who we really are, show who we really are. After several situations with someone or in a specific place you might discover that you don't belong here.

"Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not yours, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises."

-Jaggi Vasudev

It is okay not to know yourself that much right now and not knowing where you fit greatly, but start looking

Be Brave to face yourself and the community.

Be Brave to be who you are meant to be.

That Unique person who has passion in the weirdest thing. To the community it might be weird, however it makes sense to you.

Be Brave to leave whatever you are doing now and start a new thing.

Be Brave to go make new friends, meet new people who might understand you without explaining yourself.

Be Brave to redesign what you can't change to what you want or dream of.

BE BRAVE MY FRIENDS TO NOT WASTE YOUR LIFE.

Best wishes in such an amazing journey of self discovery,

Menna Medhat.

 hat Unique person who has passion in the weirdest thing. To the community it might be weird, however it makes sense to you.

Be Brave to leave whatever you are doing now and start a new thing.

Be Brave to go make new friends, meet new people who might understand you without explaining yourself.

Be Brave to redesign what you can't change to what you want or dream of.

BE BRAVE MY FRIENDS TO NOT WASTE YOUR LIFE.

Best wishes in such an amazing journey of self discovery,

Menna Medhat.