How Afghanistan can succeed
My mother used to tell me this Afghan fable when I was growing up.
It's the story of a woman who lived on a mountain in a village. Every day, she would carry her calf down the mountainside to the stream to drink and then back up her home again. One day, a man asked her how she was able to carry a ful-grown cow up and down the side of a mountain, to which she replied, because she had been doing it every day since it was a small calf.
This fable was my mother's way of telling me to persevere.… Seguir leyendo »