By May Rostom
It’s 4 am and I'm up. It’s not insomnia, in fact I'm dying to sleep and get some rest but I was advised not to. On Saturday 29th January, my country witnessed true terror.
A kind of terror only a few have experienced. A kind of terror caused by fellow citizens of the same nationality, religious views, or even common interest.
Terror: a state of great fear, or at least that’s what the dictionary says it is. Let me clarify what terror means. Terror is hearing gun fire in the streets, knowing that someone just around the corner is bleeding to death and watching their life slip away.
Terror is seeing army tanks, for the first time in your life, patrolling the streets like taxi cabs. Terror is not being able to contact anyone expect on their landline which is highly likely to be busy when you need them the most. Terror is knowing that somehow thousands of ex-cons, thieves, and thugs, have escaped prison and are heading your way. Lastly, terror is watching chaos un-ravel knowing that you’re not safe at home, neither in the street. As I force my eyes open, a kitchen knife sits beside me as I feel threatened in my own home.
The word “safe” and “home” cannot co-exist from now on. When you spend 9 hours boiling water to throw on trespassers, going through your escape plan more than once just in case someone breaks into your home, preparing candles just in case the electricity is cut off, spreading kitchen knives all over the house just in case you misplaced the one you carry around all day, and re-arranging furniture to try and prevent breaking and entering, then know for sure that something’s definitely wrong.
Know that now is the time your country and its people need your support the most. Know that even though terror was inflicted upon you; never cause it to anyone else.
No matter how many times you tell yourself things will be ok, that little voice in the back of your head will tell you otherwise. Hundreds of questions run through my mind as I write this now. How do you prepare yourself for something like that? How do you convince yourself that you will be able to stand up to an ex-con, look him in those scary eyes, and prevent him from attacking you? How would you remember the number of your next door neighbor or police to call for help while there’s someone trying to kick down your door? How would you be able to function with a brain freeze, leg shake, and paralyzing fear? After a lot of thought, I found one answer to all these questions (or at least that’s what I keep telling myself).
People keep telling me that the adrenaline rush will get you through it, but I fail to believe that. There must be some higher force that actually makes you stop thinking and start doing! God is the answer.
God will lead you to the path that is your destiny. God will provide you with the strength, serenity, and clear thinking you need to get through this. God will drive away all evil just so you can look at this one day and thank God you got out of it alive! So just remember, if God got you to it, he’ll get you through it. Maybe in times like these, Faith is all we have left so let’s sit back, put that knife away, and hope for a better tomorrow.
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