In this episode, we take you on a different journey... not to the top of a mountain or a new city, but to the depths of oneself. We host Saudi traveler and adventurer Saud Al-Aidi, who visited more than 88 countries and climbed nearly 20 mountains, including Mount Everest, to tell us about one of his strangest and deepest experiences: isolation in a remote Japanese village, far away from the noise of cities, social media alerts, and the obsession with constant communication. A talk about silence as a means of serenity, and about isolation as a human necessity that is not a luxury. What happens when you disconnect from everything and stay face to face with yourself? How do we return to the world after having tasted the stillness of solitude? A great team worked on this episode: Lubna Al-Khamis, Abdullah Al-Balawi, Hisham Al-Adini, and it was produced by Pixel House.
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What comes after loss?
This episode is a meditative journey into sadness, anger, loneliness, nostalgia, and the love that never ends but changes shape after loss. I share with you 10 lessons I've learned about loss over 15 years of my life. There is a lot of honesty here.. here is a lot of depth.. and a lot of me.
What comes after success?
What happens after we arrive? Why does the feeling fade after graduation? Why do we experience a strange void after a successful deal or long-awaited victory? Can victory be more confusing than loss? In this episode, we delve into the confusing space after success and the desolate emptiness after arrival, when the applause ends, the well-wishers leave, and the flow of messages stops... and the big question begins: What next? A great team worked on this episode: Lubna Al-Khamis, Dania Musa, Abdullah Al-Balawi, Hisham Al-Adini, and produced by Bicycle House.
Nostalgia
Between the smell of rain, the sound of the dawn prayer, and an old song that passes by chance, nostalgia takes us without asking to places, people, and old versions of ourselves. In this poetic episode of Abjoura, we delve into nostalgia as a human emotion and understand its psychological and cultural roots, and how it transformed from a “syndrome” into a universal feeling that touches everyone. From childhood and memory, to music, cities, and travel, all the way to the journey of nostalgia and returning to places that shaped us, not to live in the past, but to reconcile with it, and understand ourselves more... An episode about longing for what has passed, gratitude for what was, and longing for what is gone forever. | A great team worked on this episode: Lubna Al-Khamis, Dania Musa, Abdullah Al-Balawi, Faisal Kharmi, Hisham Al-Adini, and produced by Bicycle House.