Written by Abdelrahman posted by his family on June 28th, 2014:
"On November 24th, 2012
About a month before my 17th birthday, I posted a topic on my blog by the title "The Unknown Scares Me".
I was talking about how by this time next year I'd be in university, and how scared I am by how fast I grew up, and how Uni was where old people went, and how I didn't feel old.
My 18th birthday came and instead of going to the place where old people go, I went to the place where criminals go. Instead of University, I went to prison.
It's a bit ironic, because if I didn't picture myself in university then i abso-freaking-lutely never pictured myself even glancing at a police station, let alone prison, let alone going there as a prisoner.
As surreal as it feels, I did learn so much, so so much, and gained so much experience, and read so many books and seen and observed new aspects of life I never dreamed I would have known relished the value of a lot of things I never appreciated and always took for granted.
So in answer to the topic I wrote saying I don't feel so old, I guess life granted my wish because now I feel too old for my age.
There was this line I read in "The Fault In Our Stars"
it goes,
"Pain is like fabric, the stronger it is, the more its worth"
I really hope that's true.
YOU ARE READING
I'm more than just a number
Non-FictionThis work doesn't belong to this author. This work is a collection of letters sent by prisoner of conscience Abdelrahman elgendy and published by his family on his official page on facebook . Abdelrahman Elgendy was arrested on 6th of October 20...
