A Friday like any other ...

a good day

News on Friday the 26th 6th 2009:
A pop icon of the past decades has died, probably due to drug abuse. Fans mourn, CDs are selling like hotcakes, it carries over into condolence books, websites, black bear, television, radio, twitter, print media - they have all their scintillating subject.

A few minutes later: The border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A farmer and his family comes back to his village he had left a half months because of the unrest. He told me that she had taken her two cows. Which had died on the way but because they could give no water or food. He says quietly. Without charge. More like a statement. A few kilometers further distributes the military bags with bread and rice. One of those supplied scurries past the camera. He beams at the camera. His hastily spoken sentences to be translated: "At the moment, life seems good again. Really good! "Section.