Tunis — Politics is probably the only subject debated 24/7 in Tunisia. Taxi drivers, journalists, people in cafés, even sports commentators have been linking football to what is happening in their country.

On my way from the Tunis airport to my hotel, I asked my taxi driver, Abdul Nasser, his views of the current situation. “What do you want me to say,” he answered with a gloomy face. “What about you? If this were your country, what would you say?” Although Abdul Nasser had turned the question on me, he didn’t waited for a response and continued, “We are not helping revive our country. We all want the chair. I'm afraid someone will gain it, but we will lose Tunisia.”

I wanted to move around the capital and see how people were living under the current circumstances. At 8:00 o’clock in the evening, there were relatively few people in the streets. The residents of Tunis are worried about the uncertain future of their country. Even in the famous Habib Bourguiba Square, the number of people can be counted in a glance. Most of the restaurants and cafes there were either closed or about to be shuttered.

“History is still to be written in our country,” said an old man I met in a café. He had survived Bourguiba as well Zine el Abidine Ben Ali. Two years ago, he had joined everyone else in the streets with the same hope and goal: change. Although change indeed took place — with Ben Ali fleeing the country, leaving it to protesters and opposition movements — there was never a moment of contentment for Tunisians. They have since been on a long journey of division, political standoff and now bloodshed.