Unsaid

As someone who lived outside Afghanistan for more than 5 years, I don’t remember much of there, and even if I do, I want something from there to myself, since my country itself isn’t in a great situation. The only thing that gives a sense of belonging is my culture, Hazara culture. Yet I don’t know it well enough to know how to embrace it. I grew up in Kabul, so neither my city nor village nor traditions and stories. 

I wish we had more writers about our stories. I wish we remembered our traditions before Islam arrived in the country. I wish I knew more about my ancestors. I have so many questions about them, but I only know there was a war going on. To know how they were treated, how they lived, and so many more, yet all becomes known to the next generation of us minorities, is the massacres done to us. 

I usually tell a lot of people to write about their lives as if in a book; there are lots of chances that we will be as forgotten as our grandparents are, but with a picture of the author, a text someone can read, and the help provided by you, maybe you will become immortal. Even if no one reads your book, it’s here to say I existed, I was also a person with interests, ambitions, and dreams…

Many don’t realize that their life experience can be similar to many more, and some books can help other people more than you can imagine. Here is my way to live forever: whenever anyone reads this, I will live again, in their minds and in the eyes that look with.

One day, we might be the ancestors I wish I knew about. They, of course, existed, but what is it about them here that today I could know them at all? Nothing but common sense that I also exist, so they were here first, so I came after.

Every little thing counts, everything that gives you a sense of need for to future of humanity, if not to no one, to yourself. For a better understanding of my means, the movie “Freedom Writers” portrays the central idea.  

But I’m just a writer, it’s my point of view as someone who writes, this view can be different for everyone, regarding what they are most interested in and know the best. So, to me making yourself immortal is in a form of favor to society and stays even after you die.