Trutharchivist

It's been a month.

A month since, in the middle of a holiday, the Hamas terrorists went to the Jewish towns and cities near the Gaza strip and murdered about 14 hundred civilians. A month since a war started here. A month since I stood in the synagogue talking about the importance of Piyutim, religious poems, while the many dead were carted off - and perhaps the massacre hadn't ended yet, I can't know.

How much can the world change in a month? How much can a person change in a month?

A lot, apparently. I went from reading Psalms with a slight panic while my brothers were packing, through carrying dead bodies for identification purposes, to resting a week at home - all while slowly understanding what happened and what's going on, because one can't really expect to digest that in one day - and through a week and a half at the Yeshivah and now three funerals.

All through, many other random things happened: trying to join a DnD group; talking about the war with some people on Discord; working with an AI generator (apparently? For some reason, the chronology doesn't sound right, but it fits); trying to work on my theoretical cloak (if everything will go as planned you might see it by this Purim, in five months); writing two piyutim; studying in the Yeshivah; and... Well, it all seems to be forever ago, not merely a month.

I also had too long to think about how I may be remembered, but I'm yet to arrive at any conclusion. I'm still somewhat lost, I think, though there are some things I've found so far.

Well, it's been a month. And this month has not been easy. I don't know whenever it may end, and am sure the next month will be just as hard.

That has been, for now, your monthly update. Don't forget to comment below if you have any further questions and remarks, leave a like it's not an upvote farm, Mr. Arch! You can't do that here! Umm, I mean, and subscribe Storms, Rust and Ruin, man, are you trying to kill me? You remember I send a PM to every new follower, I have limits to my messages per minute!

All right, all right, then thank you for reading, and have a good day. Or, you know, month. At the very least have a better one than what Israel had - though that kind of sets the bar very low.