Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.