“I just want a normal life”

Let’s call this the “Lebanese Blues”:

I want to make a career for myself; I want to be able to hang out with the people I love and even a few of those I don’t. I want the stress of my day to revolve around how much heart-clogging saturated fat was in my lunchtime sandwich, not around whether there are going to be a few armed thugs shooting at each other in the streets tonight. Or whether a car bomb is going to go off in my neighbourhood. Or whether the road to the airport is going to be blocked. I want to worry about my next paycheck and the health of my family, not about whether or not they’re going to get caught in the crossfire of what are essentially rival gangs.

Great post as usual from Nasri. Read the whole thing.