Hey tutti,
Sono un diciassettenne ucraina che è cresciuto a Kiev durante la guerra.
Di recente ho scritto un pezzo personale su cosa significhi diventare maggiorenne in un paese in costante minaccia – con sirene del raid aereo, blackout e il peso dell’età adulta che arriva troppo presto.
Ecco il pezzo completo:
https://medium.com/@yuchinskiy/what-it-means-to-be-17-in-a-country-at-war-56e1ac5e3aa2
Questo non è giornalismo: solo un onesto tentativo di elaborare tutto e condividere come ci si sente dall’interno.
Sarei grato se le avessi letto, condividesse i tuoi pensieri o fammi sapere se qualcosa risuonava.
Grazie
Slava ukraini
What It Means to Be 17 in a Country at War — My Story Growing Up in Kyiv
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12 commenti
Thank you for sharing. You are so young and have to contend with so much already. I wish you strength and safety with all my heart!
Thank you! I hope publishing your insides (and insights) both helps you process what you experiences as well as provides you with a means to break out of the isolation commonly ascociated with traumatic experiences.
More to the point, what you are living through would be what i would be living through if i lived just a couple of hundred kilometers further to the east. I feel obligated to at least attempt to share your burden by taking notice of your courage opening up.
My sympathies and my deepest respect.
Next to life and limb, it’s the connections to other people that are the foundation of being human. It is my hope you will keep all three.
C.
Great read. Keep up the great writing. Best wishes from the US.
Thanks for sharing. It’s well written. I would like to read what are you toughts about being 17, only one year and you will not be able to leave the country and be of age to serve. How do you feel about it?
Thank you for sharing. Sending my best wishes to you.
Wow
“It was chaos — quiet chaos. The kind where no one screams, but everything inside is loud.”
“But I’m still here. I laugh sometimes. I listen to music. I make plans I’m not sure will happen. And maybe that’s what surviving really looks like — not just not dying, but refusing to become numb.”
Good stuff.
You are an excellent writer. Your prose is so evocative; I’m thousands of kilometers away but it allows me to experience some fragment of the feelings you are describing.
Truly incredible, as an 18 year old this really resonated me. I cannot imagine going through what you and your nation are. You are a really great author!!
Millions of us support Ukraine against this appalling injustice. I hope one day to see Putin tried in The Hague for crimes against humanity. I wish you & your loved ones well. Slava Ukraïni 🇺🇦
You sound like a survivor. An observant and well-spoken survivor. Please keep writing. Not because random people on the Internet praises your prose, but because it is meditative.
And also because those of your age may need someone like you to put into words the emotions they share with you. Not all of us understand or own emotions or is able to express them as well as you do.
Coming of age during a real-time televised (and Internet-streamed) war is … new.
Stay strong.
Really well written. My hometown is Bucha, never knew I’d hear my suburb town in news due to Russian War crimes.
Good work, lad. Good writing! I’m much older, but I like to write also.
I took my wife and three teenagers to Kyiv in 2019 (my wife is Ukrainian). It’s lovely city, they remember it well. We support your country a lot,. With love, from California