Reminiscing Amman

So long Jordan till we meet again..and what a fantastic host and friend you have been ??

From the Uber driver who offers to lend me local currency seeing me panicking as the ATM wasn't working... to the warm friendly smiles and Marhaba & Ahlan wa Sahlan by the locals after knowing I'm a foreigner (????????)...never once did I feel unsafe or Ajnabi even though I was traveling in cabs alone. I found the men most courteous and very gentle...not sure if the local women would say the same tho ??

And the thing I am loved the most coming from a cosmopolitan bustling city (London)...is the fact Amman has just about the right balance of antiquity wedded with modernization.

A welcome change for a soul nomad like me..

Just when the whole world is in this frenzy of globalisation..some things are good to sustain their originality and resist the westernised monoculture one sees around the world.

Sad to note tho that the countries who retain their originality are somehow living with this shame of being labelled 'poor & backward'. This I noticed as almost every taxi driver told me his country is 'poor'. Totally oblivious to the fact that the decadence of cosmopolitan cities with all their malls & hi-risers is now becoming poisonous to its own dwellers....losing out on the human spirit of comm-union and any sense of joy in 'having' what the supposedly 'backward' countries still have is now totally lost to them!!

And the 'real wealth' of Jordanians possess is the wealth of communion and compassion towards other human beings.

Stay the way you are Jordan ??