The hardest and easiest question to ask any Jew in their right mind, anywhere around the world, is "what were you doing on October 7th 2023, 6:30 in the morning?"
The real question here is not "what was your life interrupted in the middle of?" - it's "how were you influenced? How were you changed?"
I, personally, felt this terrible, twisted, evil sense of triumph. See? I told you so! I told you, world! I was right! But it also threw me into depression, because even I wasn't so cynical as to genuinely believe my theories will become reality.
But the most important change that occurred in me was that I realized why we constantly get pushed to the side when we ask for justice. Because the world doesn't actually want justice - they want the version of justice they're comfortable with. They want to burn the witch in the town's square and not even think about whether she was ever a real witch or not. Meanwhile, the real witches walk free more often than not - just because they're 'respected members of the community' or something of the sort. Nothing has really changed since the Middle Ages, when you think about it - only the packaging.
P.S. this is my first time posting here so guys, cut me some slack please 😅