Few days ago, I read a story named “Nuclear Courage” written by Julian Cuero, another Icesi’s foreing languages student. Nuclear Courage tells the story of Sumiteru, a Japanese survivor of the North American nuclear attacks to Hiroshima and Nagazaki. Our new task was to write how we’re related to the story… here is the result.
“The only war I’ve been involved in is a war with myself. Anytime I find myself in a quiet place, my mind is bombed by lots of negative thoughts. All the destruction I can see is in my imagination. Sometimes, all wonderful things in my life become a desert full of the worst possible things that can happen to a person. The war feeling is really strong, I can feel my mouth dried, my heart beating faster and faster, my breathing heavy and out of control. This situation makes me get away from people, which lets the loneliness embrace me with its bare cold hands. What could I do? What could other people do for me? Maybe there’s nothing that anyone can do… But one thing’s for sure: even though I can’t help feeling this way almost everyday, what encourages me the most is to help other people. Seeing their smiling faces after I’ve done something for them, is the warmest feeling I could ever experience. That’s how I see myself reflected in Sumieru, because no matter what, even when he lost everything he had, he never stopped helping others”
That’s all!
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