| I enjoy listening to Pop and R&B! This channel features some of these songs! |
| Some history about myself: I grew up in the suburbs of Beirut (Lebanon), in a pretty poor family and neighbourhood. My parents are uneducated (neither of them completed middle school studies). My mother is a homemaker who worked briefly as a cleaner, and my father was a carpenter who died more than 10 years ago. I have an older and a younger brother in a similar age bracket. My family was pretty dysfunctional, in the sense that daily physical and verbal abuse was the norm. Many people assume that my family’s religious background is Islam, which is fair given that most of the Arab world is. But mine is from the Maronite Christianity faith. I don’t think it’s much better in terms of personal liberties, in the way it's practiced by many Lebanese people, including my parents. It was definitely tough growing up in such an environment, and my family didn’t really support my ambitions as a woman, even when I excelled at school. They thought for more or less okayish reasons (didn’t seem to me so at the time, the world is ugly), I would be better off quitting education, and marrying a more well-off man. |
| Regarding my value system: I highly favor center-left/social democratic ideology, I’m a feminist, a minimalist, an atheist, I care about the environment, I think people should be nice to one another or at least try to. I also think that difference in opinion should be tolerated and that diversity is a strength. |
| Regarding my personality traits: I’m introverted, I’m pretty reflective, I’m generally calm, I don’t enjoy small talk, I like having few significant people in my life rather than many surface-level ones. |
| Fields that have so far always captured my interest are computer science, linguistics, natural language processing (duh?!), history, philosophy and art. I already dug well into each of them I would say, but it’s a never ending intellectual endeavour. However, I’m also generally curious about many things, and I also strive to have a well-rounded understanding of the world, so I also possess general knowledge in finance, international politics, economy, sociology, and biology for example. |
| Things I enjoy in random order: cooking, hiking, running, reading (mostly non-fiction), watching movies/series (mostly comedies and documentaries/docuseries), listening to music (mainly pop and R&B), exploring other cultures (through different means), tasting/making different foods, talking to people (including people from different countries or views), talking to my family (mama I love you even if you will never read this!), discussing things (I tend to be abstract in my discussions but I’m also fine with the concrete), visiting museums, daydreaming, being alone, cleaning and organizing things (you gotta at least put up with the mundane), being romantic/sexual with someone I fancy. |
| Other random things about me in random order: I’m bisexual (more like pansexual), my biological sex is female and I identify as one (I’m also ok with they/them pronouns). I don’t know how to drive a car, a motorcycle, nor a bicycle. I eat healthy mostly. I don’t smoke cigarettes, take drugs, nor drink alcohol. I never watch sports on television. I don’t play videogames. I don’t know how to swim nor ski. I’ve been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder for many years (not all at once, but depression always), and I’ve been taking medication for many years (and of course doing therapy, at different times). I have never been married and I don’t have any children. I have been in multiple short-term relationships in my early 20s mainly. I haven’t been in a relationship for the past bunch of years even when I dated many people (most dates lasted either 1 or 2 dates). I prefer monogamy over polygamous relationships even when I tried it in the past. I like coffee (?! haha). |
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