“Dad, humans are like beasts and prey.”
Yesterday, I asked my son:
“Now that you’ve grown into a young man, what’s the most important lesson you’ve learned so far?”
His answer stunned me.
He said:
> “I’ve learned that people are like beasts and prey.
They live in forests and fields.
Each one is focused only on itself —
No one cares if another is starving, thirsty, displaced, or attacked by a predator.
They watch the prey being devoured,
turn their heads away,
and go back to chewing the grass…
unaware that their turn is coming.”
I asked him where he got such a powerful metaphor.
He replied:
> “From Gaza, Dad…
And before that, from what you told me about Lebanon —
the war, the betrayals, and the ‘theft of the century’ — when they stole our deposits.”
Wise beyond his years.
Wounded by the world far too early.
And still, he sees it all with haunting clarity.
– Hassan Ahmad Khalil
