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DIFFICULTIES

Don’t mention your loss again.

Indeed, you’ve lost so many things:

home, jobs, family, a country.

You landed in such a place

where everything is strange,

where you must start all over.

Sometimes you are like a child

who has just begun to talk,

sometimes you are like an old woman,

confused, unable to collect yourself.

These years you have lived

from loss to loss to loss,

surrounded by difficulties.

But whose life, if meaningful,

is not rooted in a predicament

and made of difficulties?

Stop talking about suffering.

Sufferings are never equal —

compared to billions of people,

you ought to feel fortunate

that you can start again.