Meeting bridge builders helped me abandoned my violence
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Extraits marquants
- I discovered that violence is never a solution and that war can never end.
Résumé
The war in Lebanon started, I was nine years old. I did what a teenager can do when he is brainwashed...
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The war in Lebanon started
when I was nine years old.
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And since that time the image
of the wars were exactly
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printed in my head and
in my heart.
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When I was a teenager
I was so excited to help
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and to defend my society.
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I believed in violence.
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I believed that violence could
bring the solution and could
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protect my people
and my family.
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So I was involved in
that time during the war.
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I did what a teenager can do
when he is brainwashed,
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ready to fight,
to spread hate,
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to spread violence
even by giving violence,
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ready to defend and to do
whatever we can do on that time.
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Later on I was privileged to
discover another reality.
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I discovered the reality that
violence is never a solution
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and that war can never end.
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And war will never bring
a right solution.
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And that war can never
be a solution.
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I think the most important
factor in my life was meeting
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people who were bridge builders,
who were able to cross
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and to abandon violence
in their own life,
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who were by themselves
bridge builders,
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through their own examples,
their own testimony,
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their own life:
Muslims or Christians,
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Lebanese or French or
Swiss or whatsoever.
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I was able to discover that
there is another reality
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and I was able to discover
and to believe in myself.
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I was able to discover
that Lebanese people
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are not pitbulls,
ready to kill each other,
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ready to hate and to
attack each other.
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The war in Lebanon started when I was nine years old. And since that time the image of the wars were exactly printed in my head and in my heart. When I was a teenager I was so excited to help and to defend my society. I believed in violence. I believed that violence could bring the solution and could protect my people and my family. So I was involved in that time during the war. I did what a teenager can do when he is brainwashed, ready to fight, to spread hate, to spread violence even by giving violence, ready to defend and to do whatever we can do on that time. Later on I was privileged to discover another reality. I discovered the reality that violence is never a solution and that war can never end. And war will never bring a right solution. And that war can never be a solution. I think the most important factor in my life was meeting people who were bridge builders, who were able to cross and to abandon violence in their own life, who were by themselves bridge builders, through their own examples, their own testimony, their own life: Muslims or Christians, Lebanese or French or Swiss or whatsoever. I was able to discover that there is another reality and I was able to discover and to believe in myself. I was able to discover that Lebanese people are not pitbulls, ready to kill each other, ready to hate and to attack each other.