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Day 14~ February 14th~ Lebanon

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I was often asked after leaving Lebanon for good: “if you love it so much, why did you leave it?”, “if it is that beautiful why aren’t you there?”

But when I remember what drove me out, it was not really the war, not the seeking of adventure, not my love for travel, no, it was something much simpler than that.

I could never be ‘me’ in my home country. It is a society that allows you to speak as long as what you say conforms to popular opinion. It lets you do as long as you do what is politically correct. What drove me out was my search for truth and my strong longing to be myself, to be true to who I am and to find out who I was. And who can do that except under the wings of freedom? How can you find yourself if you are imprisoned in dogma?

And still, years later, if you ask me where I wish to grow old, I would answer: ” Lebanon, where else?”

By ~mimo~

Photographer, Art searcher, Motion Designer, traveler.

21 replies on “Day 14~ February 14th~ Lebanon”

So true. I returned to lebanon after 20 years of absence, and this is my 12th year in lebanon, and I know without a shadow of a doubt that I do not belong here, and I cannot make friends, and I never had a steady friend… Just living here, no real troubles to deal with, the land of total chaos, too much freedom and no democracy…Ideal for the anarchists to talk and never act…

Wow, this is strong stuff, Mimo! The photo is absolutely first rate, mono is exactly the medium for it, and it goes with your words >>>perfectly.

And boy, do I agree with your words one hundred percent! Isn’t it sad to think that, in many places, thousands of years of civilisation have culminated in dogma and political correctness, with a great fear of anyone speaking out about their true feelings? I feel for your dilemma! Adrian

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