စိတ်ထဲရှိသမျှ

The most famous Shakespearean quote is “To be or not to be.” But right now, it would not be wrong to say that the real burning question for young Burmese people is: “To stay or to leave” the country. I was not an exception to this. I asked myself the same question six months after the coup, and it took me another six months to make a final decision. Back then, I sat by the shore almost every day, watching the restless waves crashed. As I turned the question over and over in my head, I smoked one cigarette after another, enduring every level of hell