Page 17 - CPS Chronicle - Issue 22

Shooq Salim Massoud Alalwi S

In a small, dark, soulless room, I sit turbulent and sad without realizing I T

am wasting time and that I have to get up right away. U

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I lived happy days full of optimism. I was the spoiled child and the only E
one in my family for a while until I had a brother whom I loved very N

much. T

I started writing at a young age. My father bought me books in Arabic S

and English and asked me about them at the end of the week. From W

here I started sailing my little boat in this long river we call “life”. R

I was so excited at first to go to school, but that didn’t last long. I
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Despite my troubling behavior, I had a teacher who discovered one I

day that I loved reading and writing, she told me something that I will N

never forget in my life: G

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“I know that you write and read better than me and I am sure
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that one day you will be something” T

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I thought about her words and wondered a lot at the time, could I be D

something important in the future? Since that day, I have become more
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interested in writing. My life changed with these simple words. I even N

won a big writing competition, Sheikh Rashid’s writing competition in T

Abu Dhabi. S

However, I met a friend, who was a neighbor. She became close to me. W
I got attached to her a lot. We never parted, and so I neglected writing. R

Everything I did, I wanted it to be with her. But everything comes to an I

end… T

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