Today, I listened to the author, ELI SHARABI who wrote Hostage about his experience of being a hostage of Hamas for almost 500 days after he lost both his wife, children and kubutz on October 7, 2023.
I had to write down and share his answer to the following question: “How did you deal with the darkness, of being in tunnels for 2 year…darkness of the event that occurred, the darkness of your existence, the darkness of your relationships with your captors?”
Eli Sharabi: “It’s for me, self-pity. It’s almost a curse. You know I never believed that. Even before October 7. So I understood immediately that I needed to survive and I would do anything for that. I separated the surviving from any emotion and acted like a machine for me.
And that’s give me the strength to believe that one day somebody was going to release me. And I needed to do anything to survive until then. Do anything I can. So I start to find Light in anything. even in 50 meters underground in the tunnels. I founf loads of things that gave me hope that day. So that’s how I did it.
Later on in the interview: I wrote this as a testimony of what happened to my family…..491 days in captivity. It’s all about Spirit and Faith and not to break…”
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From Me:
WE Need to FOCUS on the LIGHT. May we open our hearts so we can be with the light in our everyday world and to see the light in the world around us.
thoughts keeping me awake 