Everything "inside" needs to be coherent inorder to achieve coherance in the outside world

Harmony and coherence within an individual human being contribute to harmony and coherence within the society and in the whole world and each individual needs to understand this fact at personal level. My travel to Afghanistan by road was one of the most memorable journeys of my life. Here I am going to mention an experience of witnessing an incoherence within an individual which; in my view contributes to the incoherence in the society.

This is not me in the cart okay....
Although Jan Mohammad suggested me to hire one 

Jan Mohammad was the driver with whom I was traveling from Torkhum to Kabul; was an interesting person who has lived through the whole taliban regime (while he was in his teens) and has seen all the ups and down and wars and insecurity and is now living in the Karazi regime. Therefore he had a lots of stories which he always want to share.

To my surprise the roads and transport situation from Torkhum to Kabul was much much better than the situation of roads and transport from Peshawar to Torkhum. Jan Mohammad- being an Afghan  was proud of all this development. On the whole way he showed me various projects of townships, olive orchards, airport, dams and bridges etc and was praising this whole development and was thankful to Karzai regime (and USA), who enabled him to run his business and earn a respectable livelihood. He also told me the stories about his childhood during Taliban's regime, when he and his friends would play on land mines where deserted bombs and gun powder were their toys. The children would easily make crackers from those deserted bombs and would play with them.  He was not able to continue his education because of distress, poverty and uncertainty. The only thing he praised during Taliban regime was the speedy justice and quick decisions taken by a Taliban leader according to the leader's own understanding and judgment but he also expressed concern that as there was no proper system therefore sometimes an innocent person would be trapped and given punishment. So there was very little good about the Taliban regime if compared to the current government. Jan Mohammed expressed his distress about the life he spent in poverty and uncertainty. He wished if all this development (which he is witnessing now) had happened a bit earlier; he would have been able to study and would be doing a white color job. Because his younger brother is now studying in the university and is looking forward to have a bright future ahead either in Afghanistan or some other country. I was a bit surprised by the narration of the situation by Jan Mohammad as the general impression about Afghans and especially Pakhtun Afghans is that they are all pro-Taliban and anti-America.

While we were driving, there was a wrecked  bridge in the middle of wide beautiful road. And we had to slowed down and change our way. I asked Jan Mohammad what has happened to this bridge, as the roads are quite good. He informed me that last week Taliban bombed this bridge because some Americans were supposed to cross that bridge. I expressed a bit sadness and asked him whether any American was died or not. He responded with great pleasure, pride and  a bit wickedness that three American were sent to the hell. I was a bit surprised by his attitude and asked whether he is happy on the event. And to my surprise he said why on earth would he not feel happy. He distributed sweets among his friends on this success. I got even more perplexed  and asked explicitly; whether he on Taliban's side???  He said with confidence, "whatever development Americans would bring to us; but these Taliban  are our Muslims brothers. Whatever they would do, we shell support them even at the cost of our lives and prosperity.

I believe that the secret of the peace in this universe is the balance in its each and every building block (starting from the electrons and protons of an atom and the chromosomes of each cell). Any minute lack  of harmony would definitely be translated to an imbalance at a bigger level in the form of conflict, ailments and clashes. So peace within is crucial for bigger peace in the world.

I could not explain to Jan Mohammad, that although he sounds so clear and confident, he is very confused; and his confusion contributes to the incoherence and disturbance in the society, because my time with him was so less and the trust level between us was too little. But I thought in my heart that sometime blind faith in something can really make you blind and you would not be able to see through things.