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A Life Revealed--National geographic
Her eyes have captivated the world since she appeared on our cover in 1985. Now we can tell her story.
By Cathy Newman
Photograph by Steve McCurry


Totally besotted with her eyes man.
make me that pair of contact lens!!...

ok that's not the point.

["Time and hardship have erased her youth. Her skin looks like leather. The geometry of her jaw has softened. The eyes still glare; that has not softened. "She's had a hard life," said McCurry.So many here share her story." Consider the numbers. Twenty-three years of war, 1.5 million killed, 3.5 million refugees: This is the story of Afghanistan in the past quarter century.

Now, consider this photograph of a young girl with sea green eyes. Her eyes challenge ours. Most of all, they disturb. We cannot turn away.

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Such knife-thin odds. That she would be alive. That she could be found. That she could endure such loss. Surely, in the face of such bitterness the spirit could atrophy. How, she was asked, had she survived?

The answer came wrapped in unshakable certitude.

"It was," said Sharbat Gula, "the will of God." ]

what's unshakable certitude?
i dunno which God she refering to and most prob not the one that i know of.
But well, think we are TOO BLESSED to just imagine others' hardship when we are so absorbed in ours. Give me their kind of hardship now, i will just breakdown immediately.
But i too want that kind of unshakable certitude when people ask of the God that i know of, not dependent on situations... it's hard but definitely not impossible with that God of ours we know of.