5/27/2023 0 Comments And then the mountains echoedIt exhibited a lot of cultural and religious practices and he put into perspective the practices and how life was during the war in Afghanistan. The last book of his I had read, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was one of those. When I started out on this book, I was of course expecting that Khaled will play with my emotions and tickle my tear buds like he always does. She stayed because she didn’t want to be stared at anymore.” But really what guides then is what they’re afraid of. … “It’s a funny thing, Marcos, but people mostly have it backward. I take care of myself all right.” A flash of the defiant pride, like a dim glint in the fog. And coincidentally, there’s an excerpt from the book that captures this, Reading about it already gives me so much grief. It pushes me to do the best that I can do with what I have, to ensure that my family never has to experience that. Isn’t that scary? And that alone pushes me. You can’t plan ahead because you don’t know how today will turn out. Living one day at a time and deliberating on what you’re going to do today that will help you see the next day, repeat. Has someone ever asked you what your fear is? What was your answer? Well for me, after putting much thought into it, a major one is poverty, and the struggle it exposes you to – it blinds you and you miss out on so much in life, on exploring great opportunities, on pursuing your purpose, on hoping for success – because you focus so much on your daily survival.
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