on the edge
No matter how hard I try I can’t escape this feeling. This feeling that I’m standing on the edge on the abyss that is my life. This abyss isn’t a dark or haunting gap but a never ending chasm of opportunity. I feel as though everything is about to start, there is this flame in my sole that is jut waiting to explode into a brilliant swirl of color, life and promise. I feel I’m about to embark on a monumental and epic journey but there’s just one thing wrong: I don’t know what it is. But I guess thats just the teenage angst talking, stupid thing, make me feel so alienated from everyone I hold dear and what nothing more that to just ride my bike as far away as I can, and yet at the same time have me stand in awe at what all I hold dear really is to not only me but everyone else in my life.
The Beauty Academy Of KABUL
Last night I watched the movie, “The Beauty Academy Of Kabul” and was moved by the not only the message of the film but the lives of the people in it. Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, is a worn torn city where the effects of the Taliban are still seen and experienced by its citizens, especially the women. It seems that in this city where poverty if the norm, women are property, and the main focus of people coming to help rebuild is to get people medical help and education, the last thing on peoples minds would be to care about their outward appearance. This is not the case, in a city were women are stripped of their femininity and forced to cover up what makes them who they are, they still find a away to embrace their femininity through groups of underground salons. during the reign of the Taliban these salons where strictly outlawed but women still fled to them to get a perm, their makeup done or even just a trim only to go out disappear once again into their burkha. In this movie a group of women from the US and UK come to Kabul to start a beauty school for these women. What these women came to do was not only teach a skill but to empower the next generation of Afghan. This film a wonderful reminder that everyone can change lives and make the world a better place. These Afghan women now are making as mush, if not more, money then their husbands, working most of the day while still cooking, cleaning and raising children. YOU GO GIRL!!
