On Peace for Afghanistan - Why not love?

Listen to the heart of this 15-year-old Afghan boy named Zekerullah:
The wish to smile, to be human - raising the possibility of love...
Full story here: http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/

It feels like all the anger and doubts of life and death
have ‘collected’ within us in Afghanistan.

It isn’t easy.

We tell each other that we’ll cope somehow with the challenges of survival and harsh physical circumstances before us, even to cope unwillingly with death. What we can’t cope with is the global poverty of love and truth.

And oh, such distance between souls.

Hence, we live constantly hoping and constantly despairing.

We constantly hope because love imparts resolve to people of any age.

We constantly despair because hate seems so uncontrollably noisy.

We walk around hoping and despairing.

We’ve heard everyone claiming the winning strategy over those already cornered.
It mocks a child’s wisdom, so why?

We’ve pitted God/Love against Satan/Hate in hurting and killing.
It drives us to frantic hypocrisy, so why?

We’ve demonized ‘the others’ to deify ourselves.
It amputates our shared essentials, so why?

We’ve tried war.
It doesn’t work. We know it doesn’t work, so why?

Why?

Why this incongruent life of self-absorption, anger and fear?

I refuse the dictation that our pain is passive, or alone.

I refuse to weep this way.

With this smile transforming us, Zekerullah isn’t shy in crying out to you, you who may hear him as we should hear ourselves, “Why not love?”

For we constantly hope that your love would find some way.

Yes, we keep our hearts hoping that our love would find some way.

Heart to heart!

I want to be your friend.

To set my small heart free.

If you should kill me unawares, don’t forget I had asked for your friendship & love.