Every now and then, you stumble across a story that just hits different. I recently found this YouTube channel by a guy named Anwar - a Saudi man from Jizan who’s been living in the States for over 25 years. On paper, the dude’s got it okay. He’s a trained engineer who came here for his Master’s, he’s financially stable, had a family, and now lives solo. But when you watch his clips, there’s this heavy, raw layer of anxiety and burnout that he just can’t shake. Despite being an engineer, he’s been clocking in at a laundromat for decades. He’s got this crazy talent for editing and storytelling, yet he talks about himself like he’s a total failure. The real gut-punch came when his younger brother visited him after 20 years apart. They spent three weeks together in Anwar’s small spot - two rooms and a bath. Just enough space to survive, but not enough to actually live. Before heading out, his brother dropped a line that basically stripped everything bare: “Bro, you aren’t living in America... you’re living in a room.” It’s a brutal wake-up call about the "internal exile." You can cross the ocean and move to the land of opportunity, but still end up trapped in a mental and physical box. Anwar’s stuck in this linguistic limbo too - his English is rough, and even his Arabic feels like it’s slipping away, leaving him struggling to find the right words for his own pain. He’s clearly going through it, dealing with deep-seated mental health struggles since he was a kid. But the wildest part? After pouring out all that frustration and gloom, he ends every single video with: “Life is beautiful.” It doesn’t feel like some cheesy Hallmark quote. It feels like a man clinging to a life raft. If you want to see what it’s like to be truly "lost in translation" while living the American Dream, you need to check out his channel. It’s haunting, it’s real, and it’s honestly one of the most honest things on the internet right now.
