What is easier than dying in the Middle East? Waking up one morning with the sound of an explosion, not with a call to prayer. Putting fear in your bag instead of a book on the way to school. In…devamıWhat is easier than dying in the Middle East?
Waking up one morning with the sound of an explosion, not with a call to prayer.
Putting fear in your bag instead of a book on the way to school.
In a geography where what is called living is measured only by not breathing and not hearing the sound of a bomb, what could be easier than dying?
Dying in the Middle East is free. But living is more expensive day by day.
Not only with your life; you live by paying with your mind, heart, memory, past, faith, honor.
As soon as a person is born here, he is considered to belong to one side. Sect, people, language, flag are automatically selected.
If you object, you will either be a "traitor" or an "infidel."
If you want to get rid of it, you throw yourself into the sea, but the waves drag you back to the shore:
The coast is either poverty or forbidden or war again.
If you have oil, you don't have freedom.
If you believe, you have no peace.
If the subject is Palestine, every street is an expert; but children are still throwing stones at tanks.
If you are Syrian, you will either be a "terrorist" or a "burden".
You are Iraq, you are Iran, you are Lebanon... what difference does it make?
Airplanes in the same sky, children lying in the same land.
Dying in the Middle East is not fate, it is fiction.
Even you decide who will die and when, not you, but a superior mind.
Everything presented as peace is rehearsals of a new war.
"Humanity" is talked about at conference tables; but the people eat their land from hunger.
It's easy to die.
It is possible to disappear without a headline for a newspaper, without even turning into a tweet.
But it's hard to live. living with dignity is even harder.
And sometimes silence is the most terrible way to survive.
In short:
It's easier than dying in the Middle East, just...
To be forgotten.