I may moan...

About the country I live in. There may not be a stable political scene (at least not stable to us), and we may be just out of the official grips of recession. But this I can all swallow.

To think of the women in prison in Afghanistan for "crimes against morality" (daring to leave their husbands home without his permission), the women who are married off at 12 and abused to the point that they set themselves on fire in desperation, and who risk their lives to go to school...

I don't know how lucky I am. But thank god I live in a land where I am equal and I can wear what I like, I can go to school without fear, and then to university, I can work without having the permission of my father, and the man I marry will be MY choice and nobody elses.

I may complain... but I'm thankful as hell right now.