These days you have to be strong.
It's very easy to fall, it's very easy to lose stability and get swept up in waves of discouraging grief, and worse, of paralyzing fear, but you have to fight it all and stay strong.
I only knew about myself to tell, so I will report with satisfaction that most of the time it does take place.
Thank God, my family and I did not pay a direct personal price. We wallow in collective sorrow, hurt and overwhelmed, and maintain strong rules of life: refusing to fall in our spirits, encouraging our surroundings, engaging in volunteer activities and fleeing from the negative material that should be avoided.
All this time, I remember one moment of a different kind, which I wanted to tell about. That was the previous Friday, if I'm not mistaken. In one of the superfluous social groups of which I am a member, one of the participants went to the trouble of uploading a frightening and shocking text that talks about a great threat that is expected to occur that Saturday in population centers, or something similar.
The text was ridiculous, childish and silly, full of exclamation points and the kind of intimidation I would write if I wanted to write a parody of intimidation. The sharer - slightly hysterical and clearly unreliable. There is no way that in normal times I would have taken seriously any tip he would have given me.
And what happened then was that I read this nonsense, which as I read it I knew for sure was childish and stupid nonsense, and to my amazement I suddenly discovered that I felt fear. You know that terrible substance of breathing that shortens and that thing that spreads through the body? So not really, but something like that attacked me, and I haven't been calm since. Not afraid of the terrorists. Not at all. I live a soul that I am not afraid at all. Not even for one second. I just follow the instructions, because I'm a good citizen and that's it.
I am not at ease at the discovery of the enormous power that frightening texts and words have in such a complicated age, which automatically creates the great responsibility that comes with it.
So I'm very angry with those who spread the above rumor, even if they did it in good faith.
I am angry at those who spread the rumors about the photographs of the buildings. And to all of us I say and repeat: Don't believe it. Don't pay attention. 90 percent of what is written online and on WhatsApp is complete nonsense. Not to read, not to believe, not to thread in any way.
In our family, everyone knows that whoever threads an informative message that carries with it some kind of threat or fear or bad news - gets in trouble with me.
I am not at ease by the immense power that scary texts and talk have in such a complicated age, which automatically creates the great responsibility that comes with it
Take this rule into your hands: a message that sounds "too good" is fake. A message with exclamation points!!! - She's a pike. A message you received from dubious types who also sent you a picture of Ehud Barak fleeing the battle in the past is fake. A message that for some reason reaches David who knows that the people of Israel are alive!! And only then to the Army Radio newsroom - is she a fake. A message that comes too many times is fake.
To put it briefly (I can't believe I'm writing this): This is the great time of the old, established media. If they didn't broadcast it on the radio, it didn't happen.
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