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What Does Life Mean to You?

Is it to live in an environment that challenges lead your way to an uncertain future? Is it to be squeezed with harsh realities and obstacles to come to believe some moments of avoidance are opportunities? Is life what goes through your head, particularly thoughts and beliefs that you develop based on realities on the ground? Is it to struggle with the challenges that your parents have cultivated for you unintentionally? 

In Afghanistan, life seems to mean struggling with the waves of challenges those have come from your ancestors and will go on to your children. It is almost impossible to give a different meaning to life in this country. It is extremely exhausting to swim against these waves of challenges to avoid the uncertain future. 

What could you do if it happens that you are born in Afghanistan? You may have lost your chance to swim off the waves. Should you avoid your children from falling into the waves of challenges? You must be a wise and strong human being to figure out. I am in the process of visioning a future out of these waves for my naive nieces and nephews who are not aware of being carried on by the waves of uncertain future. 

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