The house is not for sale

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A while ago after a long delay the censorship department has released my novel ‘Abdullatif the Armenian.’ Although many people had asked me where they could purchase a copy of the book, the sale is almost negligible and this brings us to the subject of our article today.

A man went to a real estate office and asked to see the house that was put up for ‘sale’. The owner of the office visited the house and advised the property owner to print a brochure containing details and some pictures of the house and it was agreed.

A week later, one of the colleagues of the owner paid a visit to him in his office. He told the owner that he has heard that he wishes to sell his house and that he was looking for another house, and the latter responded in the affirmative.

Here, the colleague showed him the brochure of a house which he had just received from another friend. It looked like a dream house he was always looking for after selling his house.

From the brochure, our owner discovered that the house is truly distinctive. It had four bedrooms and was fully furnished. It was characterized by its superb design, solid construction, solid mahogany doors, rare door handles, and Louis XIV model doors. The French windows were of a superb design and immune to theft.

The house also had three spacious halls overlooking the east which made it warm in winter and refreshing in summer. It was also close to the mass transport system as well as other needs such as a church, a small supermarket, two excellent restaurants, a bakery, laundry and other essential services. Add to this, it was near a large public park, and located in a quiet and outstanding area where vehicular traffic was rare especially in the evening.

The landlord was fascinated by the advantages of the house as illustrated in the brochure. He said to himself that he had longed to own a house with such specifications and advantages. He contacted the broker and asked the price of that house and the possibility of buying it after selling his own house.

The broker laughed and told him that the brochure in his hands is of his house which is not for sale.

This is an example of the fact that we do not really know the value of what we possess and the value of what is around us. We often take many things for granted, and we do not know or appreciate the value of parents or close relatives or friends until they are lost or even after hearing others talking about them and describe their good and beautiful qualities.

 If a stranger offers us a service even a small one, we often warmly thank him, but if a relative or friend, or even a father or mother offers the same service to us, even bigger, we usually do not care much about thanking them and this is a tragedy indeed because this is the nature of a majority of us.

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By Ahmad Al-Sarraf

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