{"id":1464,"date":"2024-11-03T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:25:06","slug":"letters-to-no-one-number-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/ar\/letters-to-no-one-number-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to No &#8211; one: number 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-6087ff1ae3bdf1e1e57efeb8a0c60bda\">Dear anyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-7349c499486f40663aabf9510c47902a\">I have yet to take a shower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-105916e594bfc1972d3e4d38e3d0e7b8\">However, I look well put together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-38e4e6261d51d79dc1d33ea66512f8c5\">At least, that&#8217;s what my brother told me this morning as I visited his shop in the opposite building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-34b0e65e9faf415c4fb3b8264923774b\">I vomited all night, and couldn&#8217;t care less about the bombs, nor the patriotic songs pouring from different apartments in the small neighborhood I live in with my siblings and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/c66d8a5e-d6f8-4765-9862-89c0a7e26461-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/c66d8a5e-d6f8-4765-9862-89c0a7e26461-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/c66d8a5e-d6f8-4765-9862-89c0a7e26461-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/c66d8a5e-d6f8-4765-9862-89c0a7e26461-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/c66d8a5e-d6f8-4765-9862-89c0a7e26461-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/c66d8a5e-d6f8-4765-9862-89c0a7e26461.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-89c0897f668c445c3bf10f2af1913c91\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-40a3ba9a00560ee61924a9d94753d4a0\">It was a relatively calm evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-331f4845d606b3c1454a22649e61a671\">Not the usual hell that only subsides in the early morning hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-90fda8ea16fcaad745997816f947a0aa\">When I told my therapist about my inability to eat nor sustain food in my body, even though I proudly hold the title: &#8220;GOURMANDE&#8221; in our family, she laughed and quietly said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-12f2f5d1a6c88809854988a3929602d0\">&#8220;You are simply purging your old life&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-b42e77f5734fbf1f710b637e7cef6678\">Do you blame me, dear anyone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1467\" src=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/aeeee52b-3056-4e8c-80ac-af51bbb30005-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/aeeee52b-3056-4e8c-80ac-af51bbb30005-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/aeeee52b-3056-4e8c-80ac-af51bbb30005-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/aeeee52b-3056-4e8c-80ac-af51bbb30005-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/aeeee52b-3056-4e8c-80ac-af51bbb30005-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/aeeee52b-3056-4e8c-80ac-af51bbb30005.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-af7d44d2e5b6eb00f973cf4f6fc3402b\">I believe I made some major orthographic errors in my previous letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f88321eaf8fc27699791fa884bdcecea\">I needed to clean my soul from all the scenes I am witnessing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-9adbf54ce36d622eb2d5330d7d3d164d\">Remember, please, that I am purging my old life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8e1627b3ffc4414bc4157574cb1e29ba\">My friend Paullina lost her mother a few days ago, and she does not know how to start her mourning midst all that is happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3ed7572667ff1b888b7b51458b02cd66\">&#8220;Who do I mourn?&#8221;, she asks me. &#8220;my mother, or all the life I thought I had built, only to see it vanish in front of my eyes?&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-781b4dcc3c14ca56b1c325c471017ed1\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1468\" src=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a13b1e78-5621-492b-944b-eec033388dc3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a13b1e78-5621-492b-944b-eec033388dc3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a13b1e78-5621-492b-944b-eec033388dc3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a13b1e78-5621-492b-944b-eec033388dc3-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a13b1e78-5621-492b-944b-eec033388dc3-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a13b1e78-5621-492b-944b-eec033388dc3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f6917f13ad3e7a0ca5ae282494ced4af\">I am eerily calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e098384e48dfe317419fd19a80fc8e54\">So is the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-cd9a5050b7be5719a4f8cc13cd4db001\">My sister asked me this morning if I wanted to accompany her to deliver the upcoming week&#8217;s meals for my aging aunt and her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e0291e801ae17216a517dd1cc8592b84\">&#8220;But am warning you, Hanadi, if bombs start pouring on us and you do your screaming act, I will throw you out of the car&#8221;, she sweetly said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ce7e3b7c4a58fe58b440f1dd5ec3022c\">&#8220;Do not worry, I am drained from all of last night&#8217;s vomiting&#8221;, I answered quietly. Serenely?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1c2221a62da5654b75e5126f9d266447\">The streets were frightening, dear anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-a476c1dbb441a398cfaa33a378bb44b5\">So many shops have declared bankruptcy  .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1d611533e04cf7802ac514defd2efcf9\">We hardly saw people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-bc3d27c2beb7b4b0062d8980770d43d1\">My sister asked if I had the courage to see the annihilated neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8c9b207f486cf7a876259a5f4c8cb126\">&#8220;I need a few days. To restore my energy. To accept the fact that everything has changed&#8221;, I answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/62f8364c-a7ae-4014-bef4-fec4d4511456-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/62f8364c-a7ae-4014-bef4-fec4d4511456-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/62f8364c-a7ae-4014-bef4-fec4d4511456-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/62f8364c-a7ae-4014-bef4-fec4d4511456-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/62f8364c-a7ae-4014-bef4-fec4d4511456-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/62f8364c-a7ae-4014-bef4-fec4d4511456.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-95cbf6b1f2b89cb8ca54f5ef1ee5a3a0\">I do not think the displaced are waiting for anyone to save them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ae17314da2d4f614ab9947fdccc533bc\">They are scattered in different neighborhoods, parks, night clubs, restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-bebe5848e1a3e1f1853176fbe4869409\">Yet, thousands of volunteers are working 24\/7 to insure proper meals, warm blankets, few smiles. Trying to lure any glimpse of hope out of their dejected faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-72ab13f4d1f8a983dba9d421c0dce2bc\">&#8220;I do not want rice or a can of beans&#8221;, screamed an elderly man who has been refusing to eat since Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-520d47609b466f7aaeaa678815c3041e\">&#8220;I want my dignity back&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-b9e8e47cc5da4664a1ae47ae4563045a\">In one of the Parks in Central Beirut, a man brought with him his caged birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-7e6d9b1bf8856cd9f1b70ff10232d3f2\">Another, his pets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/682570ee-2d5b-4ff5-92cf-62f88a46940f-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/682570ee-2d5b-4ff5-92cf-62f88a46940f-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/682570ee-2d5b-4ff5-92cf-62f88a46940f-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/682570ee-2d5b-4ff5-92cf-62f88a46940f-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/682570ee-2d5b-4ff5-92cf-62f88a46940f-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/682570ee-2d5b-4ff5-92cf-62f88a46940f-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/682570ee-2d5b-4ff5-92cf-62f88a46940f.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-10e758d387e582f60c8c4b5c47c74fbb\">You can tell by the expression on the faces, that those people who have fled their homes, their lives, are not waiting for anyone to save them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-63155b2da21785d35fc64a850be05060\">Something has happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-db30649c465a39ec157fa9d38f49d3c6\">And it is big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-005efcdc92522c4109fb3e388c45b8a7\">A young rebellious man asked a reporter not to show their faces:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-a1572dcb24a57a42c723ac3f52e5344a\">&#8220;Allow us what little dignity we have left&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f317316ff1e3e02a3d34b1e501c1aeda\">I thought of my father, in his last days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d46f5081327c7a58282d4d2f2a1a9771\">He flew out of the window as a result of the massive explosion THAT YEAR(2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-522dca564331111b075121226c8fd283\">The emperor became an ordinary man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-cea3de547d7d07dff418808f84d2d331\">His speech became basic. Naive. Childish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3ed688977216a6f77339052fc00477e7\">&#8220;I am leaving&#8221;, he would say around bedtime instead of &#8220;Goodnight&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-13de1a2fbc4db8f47b1716d607d78698\">Had I not been exhausted today, from all of last night&#8217;s vomiting, I would have screamed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-582ef836508a2cf4cefbfa5b7a06b83d\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t leave me, Dad&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ad5a996b55e954cdf2402b180e60d05c\">&#8220;You did not vomit&#8221;, my therapist insists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-cbc9acdf12f40e6ad4144d6e963d773e\">&#8220;You simply purged your old life&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2d4e1af67b11be263cc5a515e8b85831\">In one of the food stations offering soup for the displaced, a young man kept his eyes on the floor as the volunteer added some bread to the small container he held in his hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-781b4dcc3c14ca56b1c325c471017ed1\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4d093ba2-2abb-44c5-b953-6a99f32fa594-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1471\" style=\"width:796px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4d093ba2-2abb-44c5-b953-6a99f32fa594-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4d093ba2-2abb-44c5-b953-6a99f32fa594-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4d093ba2-2abb-44c5-b953-6a99f32fa594-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4d093ba2-2abb-44c5-b953-6a99f32fa594-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/fabulousbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4d093ba2-2abb-44c5-b953-6a99f32fa594.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-bee8ecb7d9dcaec8d6f2e06281b9b6b4\">Those who have lost everything, Dear Anyone, What do their love stories look like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f9be5acfe55d347a34bc9c181e248f73\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-0aa4e4550d4e156121a9fae4b04a05a1\">Until Tomorrow,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d831a3825c084acd1a4bd11735db35a0\">Hanadi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ba8d9c5e8fff12176f29452d4a76c669\">October 5th 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-89c0897f668c445c3bf10f2af1913c91\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-89c0897f668c445c3bf10f2af1913c91\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear anyone, I have yet to take a shower. However, I look well put together. At least, that&#8217;s what my brother told me this morning as I visited his shop in the opposite building. 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