How do we look to the world?

Everyone has his own way of thinking to the world, but in general there are two approaches and each one in one extreme.
In one of the approaches people look to world in a lovely way. They think everything in the world is good, lovely and beautiful. There is nothing bad, ugly and horrible, except what our mind thinks and makes.
On the other extreme people think everything in the world is bad, ugly and horrible. They think life in general is collection of tricks and to keep it going you must fight or fly. When I look to origin of these thoughts; I generally find that the first idea is raised more in the developed societies, where everything is available for a good living. But the letter idea is more common among people where they are fighting with basic needs of life. People in the first party think that an optimistic look to the life and world has led them to the better life.
As I am socially with the second group of people; I am question myself if that the "optimistic look to life" itself is a key to a better life, or a better life gives birth to this idea. When you have every thing for a good living; you have a good shelter, good food, good income, good security and lots of other good things in your life there is no doubt that you will have good look to your life. But if you wake up with cry of your children weeping from hunger, you passed a rainy night under a broken shelter, you did not get your salary for 3-4 months, every moment you are expecting robbery, or bombardments how can you have a good look to the life?
Sometimes I am thinking about my father, my self and people who have came from the west. My father and people who spent their life in the west were in two extremes and I am wondering in the middle. My father spent most of his life as immigrant; he was fighting with horrible pictures life and finally passed away while he was very sick but could not get a good medical help and had nothing for a good living. The picture he saw from the life was a horrible one; war, hunger, broken shelter, insecurity, disease, and all terrible things that one can think of. On the other hand his friends who passed their time in the west had everything for a good life. They were away from war. Hunger, disease, and insecurity were strangers to them. The picture they had from world was beautiful and lovely. And here I am in the middle. I was a witness war, but now living in a relative peace. I spent my childhood in hunger and under broken shelter, but now am an owner of a better life. I have a test of both groups, and I have a picture from world which has both extremes.
Now if I come back to the message that "good look to the world makes your life good" I don’t agree. I would say that "good life makes you to have a good look to the world"

Association of Afghan Family Medicine (AAFM), a Dream or a Reality?

And here I am back………after many days since the last piece of my memories……do I have anything new now? Yes, I am back with one of my dreams. I am trying to make this dream true, but I am not sure if I would be able to do so. The dream I am busy these days is organizing the "Association of Afghan Family Medicine".

The association entered to my thoughts when I was in the medical school. I entered the medical school with so many problems (mainly of burocracy) and finished it with many more difficulties. In the medical school I was always reading old foreign journals. I did not have access to new journals, but still I was happy if got an old one. Reading from foreign medical journals and from foreign medical associations, I was feeling sad for my own country. We had no journal inside our country, and the country had no medical association. Outside the country, no one recognized our medical school and no one accepted our degree. I was always dreaming I would establish a medical association, a centre of excellence, the association that would struggle to improve the quality of our medical education and fight against the bad criticism we were facing.
When I entered residency program I got to know young motivated colleagues who had the same thought I had. We decided to bring our association out of our thoughts and give it a real physical appearance. But encountered a surprising problem; I found that the distance between our thoughts and our practical work was too much. When we sat and talked, we had wonderful speech and lovely thought, but when we had to practically do something we were lazy. Some of our colleagues thought that the idea was very big and we were too small for it. However I loved the thought and wanted to give it physical appearance. So as a first step I made a website, http://www.afdocs.bravehost.com/ the response to the website was different; some were supportive and some people thought it a funny joke. There was not much help, ……….so I finally thought I will give up, and I did so. Letter on we were about to graduate from the residency program, and we were all thinking that we should have a link with each other, as the result the thought of association again came to the minds. We had many meetings and again had the lovely speech about the association, but in practice we were again very lazy. Maybe we were not so much lazy, but the difficulties we had did not allow us to get busy in something that had no physical profit for us in short term. And so we graduated, and scattered in four parts of the country. A year letter we came back to each other by chance. I again proposed the association, and one of old colleagues said "It is a lovely idea, but I don’t know why we don’t have much interest". And this time I promised that with any price I will work for the association. So I spent days to make a draft to organize it and I finally yesterday I came with some papers. As I finished the draft and the 3 months work plan, I was so happy…..so went to a net café and emailed to friends. Here now I am waiting for the responses……I am sure I will get supportive feedbacks, but I am also waiting for funny jokes. I don’t know what will happen after this…….I hope I will get it done, and I hope this time we wont be lazy.
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