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whom, the future was taken away so same one I had to be accustomed to conversations with my family over
suddenly in a blink of an eye. in time. When I went back, I knew the phone on a screen that glitches
that it was going to be the last time. every half a minute?
Nowadays, I do not feel that eve-
rything is doom and gloom. The I broke my hand when I came My aim in the future is to rid
earthquake had done considerable home to my parents. I knew that myself of this unfathomable long-
damage to the city I hold dear to my things had changed, but I did not ing. I am clawed into the clutches of
heart, but it also showed how much know how irreversible everything uncertainty, and I cannot ease my
solidarity we had for each other. It was. I felt that I was in an alternate mind into ridding this worry. As an
had always bothered me of how wor- place, where things that stayed the eldest brother, I am still reeling from
ried I was of the danger my family same did not represent reality. I not spending enough time with my
faced from nature, as well as peo- was interrogated for 30 minutes at siblings. Memory still does not serve
ple. However, I had neglected the the airport on my intentions for the me well enough to recall the last
goodwill of our people to help each trip. I had to give a comprehensive normal conversations I had with ei-
other. There was a lot of damage, a account of my return. Everywhere ther of them in person, nor with my
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lot who lost their place of living and I went, I felt that life had been tak- parents.
from whom, source of food had be- en away, and the constant chatter
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did not stop people from trying. The My parents talked about people
recovery efforts were brutal, painful in the neighbourhood on the run
and heartbreaking. I cannot imag- after they were forcefully given the
ine how traumatic everything must order of conscript to serve in the
have been. military. In addition, I had received
one of the worst news I had been on
However, I had come to know the receiving end of: a family mem-
that although the city might have ber had been killed from a bomb
been torn apart, the people are still shrapnel. It became obvious for us
there, surviving, trying to thrive. In that we would have to conceive a fu-
the end, every time I speak to my ture away from a place we call home
family, I am grateful and relieved our whole lives. For my parents, as
that they are still with me every step they close in on retirement age, they
of the way. would have to move oceans to stay
together as a family.
The Future?
Generally, I am not the kind of
I have a simple dream: to reu- person to think so far ahead of time.
nite with my family. Currently, it is In this case, whenever I think about
an impossible dream. It is not mere my future, I could never envision a
borders that separate us. Many peo- bright and jolly future. I remember
ple dream of a brighter future; of taking a personality test when I was
wealth, prosperity, security and in- younger and I found out that I was
fluence. I was the same when I left overly pessimistic. It did not come
home. I had felt the excitement of as a shock to me, but it did not ease
taking a journey alone by myself my mind one bit as every nightmare
towards uncertainty. It was a highly I could think of has been the real-
exhilarating thought, but it was not ity I was living in. I had not seen my
the right way of approach. I did not parents in person for over 3 years.
look back when I should have. The How am I supposed to think of a fu-
picture I had left behind was not the ture for myself where I am to have