Another World

Chapter one

"Rest assured, the world will never laugh at you."

This is what a man said to me before I
attempted suicide. I was going to throw myself into the Nile River, but I abandoned this decision at the last moment. I am Malik Mahmoud Al-Garhi, I am thirty years old, I work as a chef in a five-star restaurant. I was one of the oldest... The chef in this restaurant, I did not get this job until after five years of struggling to find my job in my country (Alexandria)

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My friend Karim was the one who brought me this job, and he was the one who taught me the basics of cooking after I had lost my passion, especially since I was. One of the first students in the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Department of Kitchen. I left my family and my country, Alexandria, and went to work in this restaurant in Cairo, and after I had a good reputation in the place, this restaurant became famous, thanks to God and then mine. The largest people in this country came to the restaurant. And they asked me for something special. I made just one mistake that was enough to destroy six years of fatigue and hard work day and night. The mistake was... __________________

I was in the restaurant and cooking food for the customers as usual every day, until a very important customer came, not in the country but in The whole country, he asked me specifically to go and find out what he asked for and what he wanted for his lunch today. Even though we had a large staff in the restaurant and they could easily find out exactly what he wanted, he decided to meet the chef personally. I went to him and met him. He was guarding a very large table, and he was... He was sitting with his wife and children, and he was showing signs of distress and arrogance on his face, and he was not smiling. I went to him with a facade of kindness and an artificial smile for him, and said,

“Good evening, regret.

= Are you the chef who is doing this to me? (Mockingly)

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I don’t understand what you mean, regret.. .?! Have you asked me specifically? May I know your request? We have all kinds of food, Eastern, Asian, Western, and whatever you want.. May I know your order?   The customer's face showed signs of anger and nervousness and he said

= Don't interrupt me... (He took an inhale, then closed his eyes slowly, then he gradually opened his eyes and exhaled until he calmed down and continued his speech, saying) Wipe my boots - Yes?!   =As I heard, wipe the boots. Water fell on them. I don't like them. (With a cold facial expression) Malik replied in a very calm manner

- Oh, but I'm not working for you to wipe them. I'm a chef here, and you don't have the right to talk to me like that, okay? 

=You, your family, and those like you who work for me when he said these words, I heard them, and they were to me like bringing gasoline, then putting it in a burning fire. It burned more than it burned. I didn't feel like myself until I grabbed the hot tea that was on the table and poured it in his face, saying nervously and without caring about what would happen to me next,

"Those who wipe these boots, you and people like you, wipe them for their masters to let someone like you come and split the horns over someone more honorable than you." Someone like you,

and I would have hit him had it not been for the manager coming from afar and holding my hand, saying to me nervously,

“Do you know who this is?”   The man replied to him, saying,

“You are bringing thugs.” Here you work.

The manager said to him,

“Calm down, regret, I will fire you immediately.”

(Then he looked at me and said)...

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