We never thought that we would reach this point. We thought the crisis would last for a day or two.
When I packed my bags, I honestly expected to return to my home after a week.
The crisis would end in a few days.
It wouldn't last for years.
In the beginning, I thought that it would last for a month or so, but it’s been so long.
Honestly, I wish this had been a dream.
My husband went to get bread, and suddenly, instead of returning with the bread, I was told that he had died.
When a friend of yours is killed in front of you in a very brutal way, brutal beyond imagination. At the same time, you can’t say or do anything about it.
My husband, God bless his soul, decided to go back up to our house and to get some things. I don’t know what to say. He died at the door of the shelter. We couldn’t even go out to see him.
I lost my family; my father, my mother and my eldest brother at the same time.
The shelling was right and left.It was 6 a.m. in the morning, we fled and we were all crying, there was sniper fire above our heads.
My only concern was to save (my children) from this crisis.
I have spent my entire life in displacement, I go to a new school every year, make new friends, and then get displaced again.
After ten years, the crisis made me someone else, who isn’t me.
We entered a dark tunnel at the end of which there is light, but how far is this tunnel? Only God knows.
The most difficult thing in this life is the sound of shelling.
We were left alone in this suffering.
I didn’t expect I would leave my house and be in this place, and especially be living with my children in a tent.
We were sleeping, the tent overflowed with water, and my clothes got wet and I was cold.
The things that keep me going is my faith in the strength of Syria and its people. Hope exists in us.
I won’t forget how my friends stood by me, how we supported each other.
The most important thing I did in these ten years was that I managed to keep my wife with me.
What helps me keep on going, even despite the soaring prices and hardships, is that my children are going to school.
I hope the war ends, we have had enough. We are tired. We can't take it anymore.
I hope that we will return to our homes and live a more beautiful life.