It’s been a while since I sat down to write something, may be because I lacked a triggering fact, which makes me jot down my thoughts. But after a long time, I think I have found one. For 23 years, which is just 3 years short of my spent lifetime, I have seen a war that kept a lot of things apart from us. And I have seen how things have changed in the last couple of years, which could have been towards a positive direction. Back then it was quite normal for us to see, hear and read about the fights, killing and other destructive acts that were carried out in the name of war. We felt it little by little with the increase of suicide bombings, shootings and air attacks that took place within the southern cities. That is when it dawned on us what it is like to experience it day in day out, to live a life submerged in fear. It is now that we know what we have missed all our childhood. After the war, the number of military barricades declined. Roads that were previously closed w...