Baghdad in its melancholy by Natalia Holvova

Gone are the days of glam and shine of Baghdad, the Arabic metropolis. What the war brought to the city where people lived happy everyday lives? What is Baghdad today? How can its citizens cope and accept what happened with their hometown? Is this a picture of home? Where are kinds playing around on the streets? Where are market sellers screaming and laughing all over the place? Where are night cafes full of young students, artists and devotees?War! I wish we can forget this bloodcurdling word and just avoid everything connected with sadness of Baghdad. Walking on the streets is almost impossible nowadays. Stews and unrests can find you everywhere. The famous future of young hopes of the country has changed and today everyone just try to survive and not to truckle to the pain and melancholy and people are wiling to do anything keeping them out of insanity.Imagine your hometown under the occupation, battles, fights and looting. Imagine you don't feel safe in your home. Imagine someone is destroying your home more and more everyday and the only thing you can do against it is watching the dark cloud that is beneath, in your secret places you could hide and dream in before. Imagine your favorite bank in the park under your beloved tree with view to the distance where the sun is ending its daily route and you can not even go little closer to the place. Imagine things what happened in Baghdad, happened in your town....just imagine.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080113/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_gallery_s_war;_ylt=AjWR1eIIsTLksMSgKHehMqSs0NUE

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