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Summer is a time of ideas. I’ve noticed that most people set the summer to be a time to DO and start something new.

Every year when I go home for the summer, people tell me about the unreachable goals and unrealistics tasks they set themselves for the next couple of months… They realize of course that what they set out to is probably undoable, but whoever said thinking and dreaming is a crime? If anything, its a blessing.

However, in Kuwait, ideas are born, but they never grow. They stay as they are, thoughts that linger for a while until they die. Why, you wonder? Because Kuwait, like the rest of the gulf, has a ” nay-sayer ” mentality- and that is innovation’s worst enemy.

These days when one comes up with an idea and proposes it to others, the only response he/she gets is a list of obstacles, and a bunch of discouraging words that set a tone of disappointment. Is it hate of innovation? Discouraging others to follow an idea, no matter how stupid, helps absolutely no one.

We are taught from an early age that dreams should be realistic. Yeah, that doesn’t make sense. But that’ts how, in my honest opinion, Kuwaitis are brought up. We are told there is a socially acceptable plan that we have to stick to, and that dreams should remain just that.. dreams. And so, we kill inovation, and build a fear of failure and a fear of the abnormal, even if it has a potential to be successful.

We have become a society of average men and women.

And so I hope that the next time you, my fellow Kuwaiti, come up with a bright idea, I really hope you go along with it, ignore the no-can-doers and find a way to make it work. You might fail- hats true, but you might very well succeed, and that is all that matters.

The box… think outside it.