LIFE AS IT IS

Although we may not always be on the same page, even so we can stay friends. Although I may not always meet your expectations and you not mine, even so we can stay friends.  Although the way you look at the world is different from mine, even so we can stay friends.  I want my friends to give me only that much, that much that they want to give me from their hearts…not a bit more or less, for there is no compulsion in friendship... https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wara-Karim/1401474443425018

Motherhood has instilled in me a different type of emotion, an emotion whose existence I was unaware of in those pre-mummy years of life. Today, when I see suffering children, turbulent emotions rupture my heart. Sometimes, I shed tears in silence. I ask myself if this emotional overflow is because of my new identity as a mother. Perhaps. Every child deserves a happy childhood. But to millions of children around the world, "happiness" is a word that carries little or no meaning. Many a child's childhood is snatched away at such an early age that they never know what it feels like to go school five days a week, eat three good meals a day, or sleep without having to worry about their houses being blown up by enemy tropps. In any conflict, it's the children who suffer the most. When I see images and video footage of living and dead children of Palestine and Syria, I sit still before my computer and know not what to feel. Sometimes I wonder what I myself would have ...