Letters to the World (6)

To Whom It May Concern:
When I was little I used to be afraid of dark. I used to think that there were monsters there, waiting for me to close my eyes so that they could take me to their terrifying world. But time passed and I realized there was nothing there to be afraid of. Uh, how wrong was I! The monsters of my childhood are nothing compared to the new one haunting my life and who has a new name: WAR. And yet, the most terrible is that this time, the monster is real, is present in the life of so many citizens of Ukraine, a country we share borders with.
I used to open my eyes in order to escape from the dark but now, no matter how hard I try, I can’t do it anymore. In fact, the more I open my eyes, the more aware I am of the destruction and the pain the war brings in the lives of so many innocent people. Because, the only ones that suffer most from the horror of the war are the ordinary people, the women who lose their husbands and their sons, the children who see their childhood destroyed by some mischievous so called ‘leaders’ who only pretend to protect the people’s wealth, when in fact they only see their evil.
I am only seventeen and my life is still waiting for me. My hopes and dreams are out there, so close, yet so far away. How am I going to see them come true when I live in a constant state of fear? The fear that this monster will take my father away from me, will separate my family and will leave me in another world, consumed by darkness? I am asking you, the reader of this letter, to answer these questions and to make me understand how is that called life. But more important than that, I am asking you to take actions, to spread the word and to stand against these people who, from the comfort of their houses, control this thing. Only by rising together will we be able to stop the atrocities happening in Ukraine and to prevent the destruction of so many other lives.
After all, we are humans. We were given life by God and most important, conscience and the power of thinking and discerning. So let’s stop for a second and use these qualities to make our world a better place, a home for our future children, a world with no monsters in it!
A concerned citizen,
Alina