Keep smiling :-)

As soon as you open the door,
And I see your smile,
Everything fades away,
Every thought goes away.

On enjoying existence

"When man's nature functions soundly as a whole, when he feels that the world of which he is part of is a huge, beautiful, admirable and worthy whole, when this harmony gives him pure and uninhibited delight, then the universe, if it were capable of emotion, would rejoice at having reached its goal and admire the crowning glory of its own evolution. for, what purpose would those countless suns and planets and moons serve, those stars and milky ways, comets and nebulae, those created and evolving worlds, if a happy human being did not ultimately emerge to enjoy existence?"

Goethe, Essays on art..

Weaning

I learned today from a mother going through the weaning process for her child that one approach to do so is called "Do not offer it, do not refuse it". I could not help thinking how the same method could be applied to other situations, when dealing with grown ups and their inner child.

What were you thinking?

And one day, she the logical one, learned a lesson; that if one day she wanted to yell at someone what the hell were you thinking?, the answer might be as simply as I trusted him/her!

كباب

فكر ميكند سنش زياد است، خيلى زياد، حتى يك موقع هايى نگران ميشود كه نكند انقدر پا به سن گذاشته كه دچار بحران ميانسالگان شده باشد. اما نميداند كه وقتى با عجله مياد تو آشپزخونه كه ببينه شام چيه و با ذوق و كمى خجالت يواش ميپرسد "كباب درست كردى؟"، صورتش عين يك پسر بچه كوچك است، كه اگر همون موقع بهش كباب ندى، ممكنه گريه كنه.

يكى هست، يكى ديگه هم هست!

يكى هست چون ميدونه شما چايى دوست داريد، از روى احترام و رعايت حال شما، با شما چايى ميخوره، يا صبر ميكنه شما چايى تون رو بخوريد. يكى هم هست كه معنى چايى رو ميفهمه، خودش عاشق چايى هست، به قداست و ارزش چايى ايمان داره، و كيف ميكنه كه باشما چاى بنوشه.

يكى هست از روى احترام به شما و رعايت حال شما كفشش رو دم در در مياره، اما خودش ممكنه پا برهنه رو آسفالت هم راه بره يا با كفشش تو اتاق خواب و رو تختش بره، يكى هم هست مثل شما با همه وجودش جرم ها و ميكروبها رو ميبينه.

يكى هست از روى ادب به داستانها و علايق شما و آرزوهاتون گوش ميده، يكى هم هست كه واقعا با همه وجود ميخواد اونها رو بشنوه، و تا ميتونه سعى كنه شما هم به آرزوها و خواسته هاتون برسيد.

يكى هست از روى احترام به شما و رعايت حال شما، نميخواهد مانع شادى و خوشبختيتون بشه و ميذاره شما علايقتون رو دنبال كنيد، يكى هم هست كه غير از شادى و خوشحالى شما چيز ديگرى رو اصلا نميتونه بپذيره.

يكى هست سعى ميكنه اونى باشه كه شما دوست داريد، يكى هست واقعا اونى هست كه شما دوست داريد.

Sharing happiness

I never understand it when people have some good news and they keep it to themselves and not share it. Do not you want to celebrate and share your happiness with your loved ones if not with the whole world? How can one be happy if happiness is not shared? Or is it that they are not really happy, even though the news seems good?