The house in distress

The French philosopher Blaise Pascal considered it absurd and incomprehensible that his life would end simply because two rulers on opposite sides of a river were at odds. Now, if we find ourselves in the hypothetical situation that Pascal described, the meaning of the river suddenly becomes associated with insecurity, whereas until a moment before that situation, the river had been synonymous with beauty and recreation.Each word and element, in specific time contexts, brings to life a concept that is more or less different from what we normally remember, and sometimes the difference in concepts is so different from our previous experience that a new world is presented to us.Those twelve ambiguous days have created a strange encounter with the surroundings for many of us, even those who remembered scenes from past wars, because the invasion of the homeland, no matter how many times it is experienced, is still accompanied by astonishment and bewilderment.