kaktussen

My heart breaks for you. I can't imagine what you're going through. Do you have a support network/family? My big sister died before I was born, and my mother tells how she and my dad lost almost all of their friends. I assume it's because people don't know how to react, but it's not very nice.

I really hope you get your Christmas wish fulfilled. ❤

I read an interview with some Afghani women in a refugee facility in Denmark, one was a hair dresser (or similar), and she spent her time teaching the other women in the facility how to their hair and make up (I'm going somewhere with this, promise). They were all happy they had escaped the Taliban, of course, but being a refugee in a facility isn't exactly fun. But when I finished reading that interview, I couldn't help feeling a little bit hopeful. This hairdresser woman was in her early twenties, and while she had grown up with war, she had also grown up with access to schools and being able to wear heels and make up and have a job, and her husband obviously thought it was great.

My question to you is, have their been a shift in the Afghani perception of how life should be lived, because of a 20 year break in Taliban's power (access to school, higher degree if personal freedom etc), and if yes, could this have an effect down the line on the Afghani society under Taliban? Or am I an naive idiot, and this is just a case of a young woman from a capital city will often be more liberal than her rural counterparts, and she's the odd one out?