Sihouette

Silhouette; Liselotte and the Chouf.

Lise was our guide for the little hike that we made in the Chouf Mountain range in Lebanon. Do you know what it is like raising your children amidst a civil war, bringing them to school in between bombs and bullets, living without constant water, electricity or security? How about bringing your children up through all of that and then losing one of them to a freak car accident? Lise's daughter died in a car accident last year, many years after the ceasefire. After that, you become like a shadow, a shade of your formal self. I like this photo because I think it has to some extent captured this feeling. Stories like Lise's makes you ponder about the frailty of life. Why do people close to us die? Perhaps they die so that we won't continue living our lives in vain. Perhaps.

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