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النهار
Existence in Parentheses
The text reflects on the fragility of human existence, portraying a person as a parenthetical sentence in a book whose beginning they have not read and whose end they will never reach. Loss and absence, meanwhile, reveal the value of things only after they are gone. Time, it suggests, circles around wounds, while memory chooses what to preserve. Writing does not so much defeat departure as offer its author a beautiful protest against oblivion. It ends with the thought that a person may remain a source of light in the lives of others, even after their own light has gone out.
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