Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
KHALED HOSSEINIPerhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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