In the Journal, When Afghanistan Was at Peace by Margaret Atwood, she talks about all of the positive things that her and her family saw and or see in Afghanistan. Margaret and her family visited Afghanistan before the war with the United State broke out, but the truth was the country had been at war with itself for a long time. Her family is composed of a lot of history buffs, and they were inspired to go to Afghanistan for the culture they felt it could offer. Although they were previously warned about the tribal wars taking place there, they continued overseas. They expressed the kindness the people of Afghanistan gave them, and her journal is a great representation of how kinda the people are. She wonders, after the way broke out how people could be so hard, on those people who were so kind.
In my opinion I wasn't shocked by the material she spoke about it this journal. I was always aware that many of the people overseas are kind to their visitors. I believe at the end of the day people are just people and the majority of us don't all agree with the wars we fight against one another. However, in places like Afghanistan, there is a country filled with violent people and people who hate those of us in the United States. However, this does not ever mean EVERYONE. Traveling overseas myself I experienced the kindness she speaks about from a lot of people there. In cases like that it is sad when a war is going on, because innocent kind people like the ones she is talking about are injured. However, I believe we should compare this act with the event that occurred on September 11th, 2001. Thousands of innocent kind hearted people were killed that day, all because of the act of one man. When we compare it to situations like that we are reminded that the world is far from fair. We can never have a perfect world if we never stop the violence. Nonetheless, every country is comprised of people who simply have hatred in their hearts and that violence can not be contained. I believe that we should always think to ourselves that no matter how mean some people might be, the world is consumed of billions of others who are simply kind. I try to look past wars and remember that a lot of citizens are kind and our reaching out for US aide. I just hope that one day the violence will cease to exist and we can all get along, the reality behind that seems little to none.
