Raincoat (Writings from inside a sleeve)

When I was a child , on heavy winter days,I would sometimes “lose” my hand inside my raincoat sleeve. Then mom or dad would take their hand and reach deep into the sleeve of the raincoat, pull my hand out from there and say with a big smile “Here’s Yuval hand!”

It’s a while now that I feel like that hand, lost inside a raincoat sleeve.

Yesterday I decided -I stop waiting for someone to pull mee out and start little by little, sometimes even a millimeter a day, to do it by myself .

Today I realized that Trying to get it out of there by myself is like trying to draw a picture on the sand of the beach, at the point where the waves break again and again.

I need help. I know I am the only one who can get this lost hand out of the sleeve, but being the only one who has the power doesn’t help me if I can’t remember anything as soon as another wave comes.

Being

Imagine a situation where being with yourself is an unbearable experience,but not as unbearable as being in the company of anyone else.It’s like being a fish allergic to water,or a leaf allergic to the tree,or a wave allergic to the sea,or a ray of sunlight allergic to the sky,or simply

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Traffic light

Maybe,just maybe,it’s meI’ve been waiting for. To stop trying to understandand start to feel.To stop offering meall kinds of wise and beautiful advicedisconnected from the realityof what I’ve been through,what I’m going through. The one who will simply listen—to the pain,to the struggle,to the tears that sometimes just won’t stop—without

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When I sit with you in the morning

When I sit with you in the morning,I’m not always understood,but I’m always seen. I’ve never felt that you try to hurt meor that you are hurt by me. Even when I feel you didn’t understand me,and I correct you,you listen,accept,try to understand. And it’s clear to me,as it is

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