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Afghanistan's history is long and sorrowful, like Somalia's
and all a person from outside can do is hurt for them, pray for stability to come to them somehow, breaking through their accustomed chaos, forming peaceful lives and neighborhoods and the things that so much of the rest of the world does not even realize that it has.
I am sorry that you have to live it, but someone has to to begin a change with first hand knowledge, with eye witness reporting...........
posted by
benzinha
on April 27, 2010 at 10:45 PM
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So tragic and senseless..
Thoughts, hopes for sanity and peace..Stay safe and well.
posted by
Katray2
on February 27, 2010 at 3:00 PM
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How incredibly sad to have to live that way! A question of when has such different connotations in this regard. I agree they are cowards with the way they attack! I know you will make a difference! I keep you in my prayers, too! sam
posted by
sam444
on February 27, 2010 at 9:25 AM
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This is how life has always been, only with new technologies
in a tribal culture. All the perceived options of life are seen through a tribal mindset, very different from the perceptual filters of a civilized society. In this time of the world, many tribal peoples are caught up in a maelstrom of confusion where these two currents of basic understanding collide. Well, we are all caught up in it, I guess, whether tribal or civil. Especially the part of civil society you are, there in the midst of it.
The compassionate heart is torn everywhichway. This, too, is evident in your writing. Compassion is of higher value in civil society than in tribal where life is more about matters of survival and quality of survival. So you go to help where survival is most threatened, where there is precious little quality, only always the looming threat. And there, compassion finds itself underappreciated though the combatant themselves are fighting for a professed belief in Allah the Compassionate.
If only the people there who look to that aspect of God could see that you and people like you are their own God's compassion, expressed.
posted by
Ciel
on February 27, 2010 at 9:23 AM
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