From the collection Free Fall by Naji Zahar |
Have you learnt Kinstugi?
Right here. It’s a part of the Japanese repairing beliefs – like Boro in terms of clothes (right here) – or the best way to mend damaged objects with gold. It’s a approach of elevating the day after day, to hold on to older items, to perpetuating the reminiscence, and similar to boro, it makes one thing repaired extra invaluable as a result of it’s a testimony of survival, of shared reminiscences, of issues used and abused however in the end nonetheless purposeful.
Have you learnt Rumi?
Right here. Effectively he stated some very smart issues (similar to right here). He, apparently in keeping with the web, additionally stated “preserve breaking your coronary heart till it opens”. Unsure if he stated that or not, as a result of web just isn’t a really dependable supply generally.
So what does this need to do with Lebanon?
Effectively, the whole lot retains breaking up. Every day. Irrespective of what number of occasions you rebuild, you get up and it’s damaged once more. You rebuild and there you go, it breaks once more. There are days the place actually it’s so exhausting to be right here – mentally and bodily and on all different fronts – one simply doesn’t see the logic of any rebuilding. However what will we do? We rebuild once more in fact, as a result of that is who’re and that is our specialty and that is our stubbornness and that is our stupidity.
We rebuild as a result of that is the illogic of it and we’re illogical folks. We rebuild as a result of we all know it’ll break, however is not the “golden joinery” stunning? We rebuild as a result of nothing is smart and we’re the masters of not making sense (no president, a caretaker authorities, a parliament hanging by a thread, hovering inflation, skyrocketing costs and – costly eating places crammed to the brim!).
We make no sense. Residing in Lebanon is not sensible.
However rebuild we do, as a result of our hearts preserve getting damaged – on each day foundation, however it appears they aren’t open simply but.