There are awfully bitter people in the world. People who seem to have become indifferent to someone else's suffering, to the difficulties other people endure on a daily basis.

Closed inside themselves, they just show their own bitterness and anguish.

No matter how family and friends show them tenderness and consideration, they will persist in their position.

They say they were badly hurt, betrayed, suffered too much, and that is the cause of their actual state of mind.

However, we have to consider the cause of their bitterness is not the experienced pain itself, since many people suffered more than they did and did not react in the same way.

Let us recall the Pakistani Mukhtar May's example.

This young Pakistani woman, to resolve a tribal disagreement, was sentenced to be sexually violated by several men from the offended tribe.

Her history ended up in the news headlines. Thanks to her courage, she decided to fight for her rights instead of falling into despair under such harsh situation.

Human rights, women's rights!

She decided to act upon knowing that hundreds of women commit suicide every year in her country after going through similar situation or other types of violence.

Illiterate and poor, after a historic deal with the Pakistani government, she used the funds to open a school for girls.

Her objective is to prevent future Pakistani women to be illiterate like her, and innocent victims of all types of barbarism.

As School's Principal, she was elected in The United States Woman of the Year of 2005.

In March 2007, the European Council gave her the North-South Prize of 2006 for her notorious contribution to human rights.

She is the one to say: If I hid inside my house, crying and lamenting for my fate, I would not be able to face myself in the mirror.

Sometimes, I am suffocated by indignation, but I am never hopeless.

My life has a meaning. My unhappiness turns into a useful work for the community.

Everyday I hear the girls recite their lessons, run, talk and laugh in the schoolyard.

All these voices comfort me, feed my hope.

This school had to be created, and I will continue to fight for it.

In a few years this little girls will have enough knowledge to face life in very different way, I hope.

I fight for myself and for all women who are victims of violence in my country.

When I defend my human being rights, fighting against the tribal principle of justice, which is against the official law, I have the conviction I am supporting the political intentions of my country.

If, by the mysterious ways of destiny I can help my country and its government, it is a great honor to me.

God bless my mission.

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Let us think on her example and words, still waiting for justice, without letting go her fight for the common good.

Let's think and decide for the better action: when faced by all pain that comes to us, let us take the lesson as a whole, take the opportunity, take the moment.

Let's use pain in our favor, and if possible, in favor of all who take the blessings of this home called Earth.