It took me a while to write this, simply because I really struggled to hold back tears and battled to keep a coherent, flowing, grammatically correct sentence without going off on a tangent and becoming a sobbing mess, hence the delay.

Here goes...

@Mi-x thank you so much for the pleasure of your company and for sharing your warmth, kindness, and beautiful spirit with me. Meeting you left a lasting impression on my heart, not only because of your compassion, but because of the incredible charitable work you are doing to raise funds for medical aid and to help a local Palestinian family survive unimaginable hardship. What you are doing is profoundly human, courageous, and deeply inspiring.

Seeing the photographs, reading the stories, and standing before the symbolic art pieces portraying the struggle of Palestinian refugees inside the magnificent building Palestine House, filled me with an overwhelming sense of despair and melancholy. There was a heaviness in my chest knowing that no donation of mine, no matter how sincere, could ever fully ease the pain of decades of ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide endured by so many innocent people. The suffering feels endless, and at times it is difficult not to feel powerless in the face of it.

And yet, despite all of that sorrow, I left with something powerful — hope. Hope that humanity still exists. Hope that compassion has not disappeared from this world. I found that hope in you, Miya, and in your warm and compassionate heart. Your empathy, your determination to help others, and your refusal to turn away from suffering reminded me that even in the darkest moments, there are still people who choose love, dignity, and humanity.

Thank you for being one of those people. The world needs more hearts like yours.

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Abz Abz

@AbzAbz

16 days ago

Eid Mubarak everyone. Please don’t forget our brothers and sisters in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Congo and across the globe who’s Eid won’t look anything like ours. So far all else has failed, so the least we can do is just remember them in your prayers. May Allah ease all their affairs and bring victory to them sooner rather than later and may he have no mercy on their oppressors. Ameen 🤲🏼💔

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Esma

@Esma92135614

16 days ago

A saturday in may in Stockholm.

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Maryam Muhammad

@Maryam23505578

16 days ago

Assalamualaikum, am Maryam from Nigeria am new here I really want to make some friends ,

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