Unsaid

“Liar-“

I learned about calling your country home in history class when many cartoons showed the US worrying more about civilizing other countries than “home”. Now it appears to me that I’ve never called my country home before this, but I missed our house where we lived in Afghanistan. Would that make me a patriot?

I lost Afghanistan early, when I realized a country doesn’t need to have beggars, working kids, and economic gaps between people so obvious. Of course, the economy is not all bad; there is always worse in it… Thieves in white collar are always worse. For those who know this, live in it, and feel it with each breath, staying silent because many more aren’t aware of it is the best way to lose your voice and lose it all for nothing. 

I often recognize that what I used to see in Afghanistan is far different and somewhat not vary much of how the social norms have to be, and in particular, women’s rights and unprotected kids, lack of jobs, and most importantly, all violations of “natural rights.”

If I could describe my country to someone unaware of the new emirate going on in Afghanistan, I would surely say, “In the country I was born in, religion was unaware of what it could be turned into. In the country I’m from, being born in an ethnicity other than the one favored is a crime sentenced to death. In a country once called ‘graveyard of empires, ’ they now dig us people of Afghanistan graves of our own, every kind. Women are seen as less than animals, born to obey husband, brother, father, and son all their lives long, hesitant to be somewhere the rules are set forever. Our neighboring countries love us no less than the group that resulted in all this. No belief of religion is real when terror is involved, innocent blood is shed, innocent kids are left orphaned by war, a mother’s eye is sewn to the door waiting for their beloved child to knock after school hours forgotten by her that no dead can come back all because the terrorist decided school isn’t for all to attend.”

I wish calling the country I was born in home wouldn’t have made me a liar, it was never home, not to me, we are aliens belonging to planet earth.