We Are Not OK: We Are OK | Raafat Majzoub
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/farewell-chronicles/we-are-not-ok-we-are-ok
We are not OK. We have become allowed to have conversations only in between benchmarks of farewell. We will all leave this country. Whether in untimely coffins, with humiliating boarding passes, or sheer denial, we have all already left the country, somehow. To be able to walk along streets that are rapidly changing toward places that don’t look like themselves, or us, to grab four, five, six glasses of alcohol to forget anthems of how we are supposed to be OK, and how this is supposed to be normal, can only be explainable as such – that we have already left.
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If these people always exist, what will this time make of them? “Wawa,” a friend answered, and we laughed because we are not OK. But if we take that Saturday as a sample of a chunk of a type of Lebanese youth who work in producing accessible artworks and cultural artifacts slapping that fact that we are not OK in the face, it must mean that in some way or form – even slightly – we are OK.
