My name is Divna, I am 28. Before the war, it was a totally different life. I used to travel, I was building relationships, and I had just started to think about my future. Then this war happened. It changed a lot of different parts of life. You just learn how to deal with it and how to live in a new reality.

The worst part is you cannot control anything. My brain now thinks a lot of things - not good things. I cannot imagine normal life here anymore.

I live with my brother. Because he cannot leave the country, it's hard for me to go live elsewhere. My brother is my only relative here, and right now there are concerns with conscription, because my brother doesn't want to go to the military. He's so afraid of death. Right now there are different laws and it seems like everybody's going to hide, and I'm scared.

I'm scared to lose my last relative alive. That his life will be taken.

Recently, I experienced explosions not far from my home. It was so loud. After that, every night, we go to shelter in the garage. I never know what will happen, how it will happen, and I live in fear every day. I am happy when the day has ended and everything is fine. The air alarms do not seem so scary compared to the reality of losing my last relative.

I think this thing that stuck with me is the concept of hope. Even having this good hope, sometimes it's still hard. If I forget, it's again about hope, hope, and hope. I just wake up every day and just think about this hope.

You need to have hope to live this life.

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*Name has been changed to protect the individual and family.