2020 – Tehran – Havaali Magazine
Kafka envisions the human behind the metaphor of the bridge as a being whose existence is defined by unrelenting anxiety and suffering. Like a lone bridge stretched across a distant hill, suspended above a terrifying abyss—it stands with the ever-present risk of collapse. Should it fall, everything is lost. And yet, paradoxically, it is this very threat of falling, and the struggle to resist it, that lends meaning to its fragile, half-lived existence. This is a structure that has unwillingly embraced fear and endurance as its permanent companions, stripped of any image of life beyond this ceaseless tension. In this suspended state, where falling is both feared and inevitable, life becomes nothing but the act of enduring.