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What’s your worst nightmare? Is it walking into an important meeting wearing your pyjamas? Being locked in a cage with a man-eating tiger. How about skydiving and then realising that the parachute is faulty? Those are far-fetched examples. Maybe not the parachute one though – that’s quite a frequent occurrence. But I digress – everyone has thoughts of terror that plagues them and the thought of these nightmares manifesting in the living world is traumatising. My worst nightmare – fear.
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS POST DISCUSSES SUICIDE This article was written shortly after the brother’s death in 2018. We have brushed this issue under the carpet for so long, our brooms are tattered, and the carpet is now redundant. My fingers feel laboured writing these sentences, because I cannot fully fathom it—yet in other ways, unfortunately, I can. In 2018, a French national named Azzouz Boutobba died due to suicide in the month of Ramadan.
11th of July: Not a date that resonates with anyone as being particularly significant, which directly exposes our lack of awareness and ignorance. 11th of July: A date that is dedicated to commemorating appropriately the anniversary of the Srebrenica-Potočari act of genocide. 11th of July 1995: A painful date etched into the memories of Bosnians; mothers, aunties, sisters, grandmothers grieving the jigsaw of their loved ones yet to be pieced together.
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