(Illustration by Jaimee Lee Haddad/L'Orient Today)
Dear estranged friend,I wrote you a message, but it never got delivered. At first, I thought it was only a matter of hours before I’d see the two ticks on my screen, a sign that my words had reached you. But they never did. And with immense sadness, I realized you had decided to sever our ties.There is so much I wanted to explain and perhaps even justify. Please know that I constantly question myself. I often wonder if my convictions about this absurd war are inflated, driven by nothing more than my deep, flawed love for our country.I apologize whenever my anger takes hold, whenever my words might have hurt someone. I never intended to offend. I write to you now, hoping these words will find their way to you, and that you might, for a moment, view things from a different perspective.In the current context of war that reduces human...
Dear estranged friend,I wrote you a message, but it never got delivered. At first, I thought it was only a matter of hours before I’d see the two ticks on my screen, a sign that my words had reached you. But they never did. And with immense sadness, I realized you had decided to sever our ties.There is so much I wanted to explain and perhaps even justify. Please know that I constantly question myself. I often wonder if my convictions about this absurd war are inflated, driven by nothing more than my deep, flawed love for our country.I apologize whenever my anger takes hold, whenever my words might have hurt someone. I never intended to offend. I write to you now, hoping these words will find their way to you, and that you might, for a moment, view things from a different perspective.In the current context of war that reduces human...