People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

There is a way to be good again...

I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.