It is enjoyable to watch the beauties of nature, but watching the natural beauties of the homeland is more enjoyable and gives us a different feeling and we feel more excited.

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In 2019, we had an official trip to attend a conference in Mazar-e-Sharif. We decided to have fun when we go from Kabul to Mazar-e-Sharif and enjoy the beauties of Afghanistan during the trip. We traveled for several hours from Kabul to Mazar-e-Sharif, but during these hours we stopped in different places and visited the cities that were on our way. 

The people of Afghanistan are brave and kind. Life in Afghanistan requires courage, those Afghans who are still in Afghanistan and living there are brave and courageous people.

Every country has a special natural beauty, Afghanistan has a special beauty with its hills covered with grasslands, greenery and flowers as well as its soaring mountains. 

It is enjoyable to watch the beauties of nature, but watching the natural beauties of the homeland is more enjoyable and gives us a different feeling and we feel more excited. 

In Afghanistan, traveling to other cities by land is not an easy task. In addition to excitement and a sense of joy, it also has a sense of fear and worry. 

When we travel from one city to another inside Afghanistan, we have to make a series of changes in our clothes and wear more hijab. Because we may encounter the (Ta--li--bA-n) during the trip, and we should be more careful in our hijab so as not to cause problems for us.

I have never made any changes in my clothes or hijab in any of my travels and I have traveled in the same normal clothes.I did it not because I was not afraid of them, but because my clothes are my choice. 

It is normal to be afraid of them. like many others, I was afraid to face them too. Despite this fear, I still wanted to face them and see what kind of creatures they are. 

Despite our fears and worries, we visited different parts of Afghanistan and made a valuable memory. 

I also tried to feel the feeling of true freedom in my homeland for even one day and not let fear hinder this feeling of my freedom and liberation. The Kabul-Mazar-e-Sharif route has many places of interest due to the location of other cities on this route. 

If Afghanistan had more security, I might have had the opportunity to travel to different cities in Afghanistan. Cities like Nuristan, Badakhshan, Nangarhar and many other cities in Afghanistan have both different beauties and different cultures than the cities where I lived. I wish that if one day I had the opportunity to live in Afghanistan again, Afghanistan would be safe and I would have the chance to travel to these cities.

This dream of Afghanistan's security has been with me for more than twenty years, but it is still just a dream. 

There is always only one question in my mind that the end of my life will come sooner or the end of the war in Afghanistan !? 

There is still no end to this war.

Writer: Shahla Samim