It is finally the last day of a year. Another year has passed filled with experiences, archived photos and endless memories. I walk through the empty university campus, with all the sweet memories rushing back to me from every corner.
Fighting against the chilly wind, I stop by the newspaper guy, Abu Ahmed, who has been my daily morning friend for six years of school. We exchange greetings and naturally political news. I've been always fascinated at how easy it's been for me to share thoughts and emotions with Abu Ahmed. He senses my depression and sorrow for how 2008 has come to a bloody end with the mass killings of my people a few hundred kilometers away.
Abu Ahmed listens intently to my confused and ever tangled thoughts; looks at me with his gentle dark brown eyes and says: "You are here my dear because you know deep inside that there is a very small illuminated gap with the light of hope coming out of it. You wake up every day and you walk towards that light. You my dear are the future. God is great. He promised himself and human kind that He will eventually lift injustice. So all you have to do is to keep on walking.."
With that, we exchange goodbyes and I keep on walking to start another year with hope for rich experiences, colorful photos and irreplaceable memories.
Beirut
1.1.2009
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