Saleem SuzahIntroduction
If someone asked me, “How was your life” I would briefly say, “It was run by love and sorrow.” My life journey starts from a war station and ends at another. However, I have been led by love in which I experienced terrific moments that I will never forget. From a poor family that faced Saddam Hussein’s persecution and forced to live in a war environment, my life started seeking love out of that painful situation. I was born in a very populous city in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, for a poor family. My father was the most one that has influenced my life with his opinions and experiences. He was an employee at the Public Corporation of Vegetable Oils; my mom was a housewife. She didn’t have a chance to work because she had to take care of six boys and three girls, as this was pretty much the norm for a Middle Eastern woman at that time. I still remember how we, as a huge family, were happy despite our poverty. It’s not yet time for me to think about anything else in this world rather than playing, singing, and dancing to what it was considered a common music at that time, but life was not that easy when someone becomes aware of how silly its essence is. Silly or even absurd when we realize that we live in an environment in which wars occur for no reason. Isn’t it silly? I now live in the United States since 2009, the land of opportunities as we used to call it in the Middle East. In the states, a new life story has just begun …….. |