in your twenties you're going to experience a sudden shift in your parents behavior to be more kind and supportive towards you that for some unknown reason couldn't have come earlier despite their past behavior contributing to your deeply troubling mental issues they disregarded
Shame on mainstream media coverage of the warโs impact on the GCC. They interview evacuated expatriates while locals living through this are ignored. Time and again, our region is reduced to statistics and geopolitics, rarely our voices or stories.