Resources are limited here, but not as limited as you would think. I have access to the Internet, food, showers, a bed, and a good suntan. I am having withdrawals from my regular fishing trips, but I have everything I NEED, everything to sustain myself comfortably.
I will be returning to the UK soon for a week and then coming back to Kabul to finish my 7 months work. The landscape is one of beautiful mountains, snowcapped when I first arrived, although the sun has day by day, eaten away at the white snow clinging to them.
Pollution is high, as is the threat to human life due to terrorism within Afghanistan. I was surprised to see the same birds here as back home, magpies, chaffinch and pigeon. There are many different nationalities and cultures working here along side me. Its amazing how even though we are all human, we are all so different in how we are day to day.
As I write this, I hear the sound of ping pong balls and pool balls bouncing around as people pass away the few quiet hours they have here. I'm a long way from home, and the lakes I love to fish, the forests I love to hunt, and the people I love. Its been a hard year, loosing my dad, getting into bother with corrupt police in the UK, which is why I have to return to the UK, and then having to leave my family to be here.
I will try to make the most of being here, hopefully the truth will come to light when I attend court next week, and I will be free to come back here, finish what I started, and without the weight of worry and uncertainty weighing me down. I try to remember, '' it shall pass'', like everything does, and as my time here will. I will write more on the issues I have faced at another time, but for now I wait for it to pass before I do. When things are hard, we can seek comfort by simply remembering 'it shall pass' '. The path may be rocky, but it also has smooth paved parts, but remember, this to shall pass.
