A Life Experience
Jawad Hozory
How can you live in an environment without your family, friends, and homeland? I and those persons that are far away from our families, friends, and homelands know the meaning of this question. Life is really hard without these three things. Imagine all time you were with your family and friends but at a time without any expectations, you going too far away–without anyone knowing and without any goodbye.
When I was in Afghanistan, in fact, I didn’t know the meaning of real love, and the value of family, friends, and homeland. Because at that time I had all of them around, but right now, I understand all of these, the pain of life without family and friends and the pain of being away from my homeland. This is the rule of life. When you want to get something, you have to lose something else.
Before coming to the USA, I always said to my family and my friends that I want to go to other countries like Germany, the USA, Canada etc, and I always tried to find a way for leaving my country. After lots of attempts, I became successful when I passed an exam for a Master’s degree and they accepted me to an Indian university in Gujarat, India. At that time, I was really happy about leaving my country. But right now, I know that was a wrong thing and a wrong idea. Because right now I feel a lot of pain for being away from family, friends, and homeland. I miss them.
Every day I think about those times when I had them around. Also, I miss my mom’s sounds especially when my mom called my name and said to come to eat lunch or dinner, and also for that time when my father ordered me to do something and showed my faults when I made mistakes. No one knows what I said. Because, when a person wasn’t in a situation he can’t understand the feeling and the situation of another person, but they will know this whenever they didn’t have their brothers and sisters for joking, laughing, and especially their sisters for their countless kindnesses. Fortunately, right now I have at least one of my brothers with me and I am thankful for having him.
When Kabul fell to the Taliban in mid-August of 2021, I came to the USA on September 05, 2021. I started a new life in a new country. Also, when I arrived in the USA, I learned from an important experience that life is nothing without our family and homeland. Finally, I want to say one thing, we must appreciate all those things that we have in our life before losing them. Because, after losing them we can’t do anything without regretting it.
