Traveling Down Streets of a Syrian Town After the War: A Profound Reflection
Here, I first wanted to marvel at it as a Chinese person, born in China, and grown up in China. We are truly very lucky and worthy of pride. Why did I say the above, it is because after a tour of Syria, I found that as a Chinese person, we are so happy.
During the trip to Syria, I went to a town called Malula, which is the hometown of one of the local students I know. He took me to his hometown, just to let me see how terrible war is!
He told me that in the past, this place was very developed in tourism, with beautiful surroundings and a highly developed service industry. It was once a town with a history of thousands of years. Although many buildings were gone, you could find traces of ancient history from the stone caves on the cliffs. The locals used to build houses directly in the caves because the mountain roads were narrow and the houses were densely built, so they built many wooden stairs for residents to use, which looked like an 'cave dwelling' ecosystem.
However, after the war, this place became dilapidated, and as far as the eye could see, there was only a sense of death. The land became desolate, except for the sky, which was still the same sky.
At that time, my first feeling in this town was a chill down my spine, because there was no one to be seen in the entire town, except for us few foreign tourists.
This student told me that his home, unfortunately, was destroyed when the war broke out, and now all that's left is rubble. The houses around here are considered lucky, but you can still see the traces of being bombarded with bullets and shells.
In fact, when this Syrian student took me to his hometown, I could feel very sad and unwilling from his eyes and tone, because war destroyed the place where they used to live happily, leaving them without their own home.
At that time, standing in this place ravaged by war, I thought, if I lived in a country like this, what would my life be like? I would have to live in fear every day, afraid that my house would be gone, my family would be gone, or even I would sleep and never see the next day's sun. This would be a very frightening thing.
In fact, during the entire trip to Syria, what touched me the most was seeing the town ravaged by war,
Because as Chinese, our country is now stable and strong, and it's hard to feel or understand the horror of war like this. Especially for young people like me, before traveling to Syria, I couldn't even imagine how terrible war is, until I experienced it firsthand, I realized how great the harm brought by war is.
Finally, Xiaoma also hopes that Syria will develop well in the future, rebuild its destroyed homeland, and wishes that there will be less conflict. May the world be truly peaceful!
