Syrian journalist and activist Kholoud Helmi was struggling with her emotions.“It’s too much sometimes,” she said. “I feel like a chocolate that has a shell outside, but inside it’s hollow. People don’t want to hear the pain. And if I cry days and nights, it won’t change anything.”Helmi, from the Damascus suburbs, could be forgiven her tears. Her brother long ago went missing and is feared dead in the nearly 6-year-old conflict; an uncle, cousins and many friends have been killed.“Sometimes you lose control. And then you go to bed, hug your pillow, weep and get up and don’t show …read more
Source: Gulf times
