The ocean of life,
Opens up new horizons,
Shows me new territories,
Hardly seen from one shore,
Only when I trust it to let go, to float,
To ride on its waves of passion,
For a dream journey.
Ride on!
There are enough waves for everyone!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Death
Do you remember when and how you were first introduced to the concept of death? For me I think it was when my paternal grandmother passed away. I one day asked my dad when will we see her again. My dad said when people get very very old, they travel to a nice place far far away, so far that it is hard for their old bodies to come back again. It sounded more like a retirement plan to me. Even as a kid, I knew this was my dad's way of telling a bitter truth. I accepted that story. It worked fine for me at the time. As soon as he said it, I thought to myself okay, she is gone for good. I get it. It is not like I am dumb just because I am a kid. I also thought how selfish they are. They leave and abandon their loved ones behind that easily just to live in a nicer place? Apparently, even my dad was not thinking of such an analysis, of the harsh reality of being abandoned and left in his supposedly nicer version of the story.
Later our family ended up spending many years very far from each other; and we had to work hard on staying in touch, to keep us alive; yet, so many things were lost and died through out the years and thousands of miles. Maybe I had always subconsciously associated the concept of being far away from someone equivalent to being dead to them. Maybe that is why I like to make sure that being far away and alive be different from being far away and dead. Maybe that is a futile effort to begin with, maybe not, not sure yet.
Of course that story stopped working for me when I was in the first grade and a cousin of mine who was in middle school was killed in a car accident. She was not very old to travel far away!
Later our family ended up spending many years very far from each other; and we had to work hard on staying in touch, to keep us alive; yet, so many things were lost and died through out the years and thousands of miles. Maybe I had always subconsciously associated the concept of being far away from someone equivalent to being dead to them. Maybe that is why I like to make sure that being far away and alive be different from being far away and dead. Maybe that is a futile effort to begin with, maybe not, not sure yet.
Of course that story stopped working for me when I was in the first grade and a cousin of mine who was in middle school was killed in a car accident. She was not very old to travel far away!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
One step at a time ...
Just focus on putting one foot in front of the next,
We were told,
One foot in front of the next,
One foot in front of the next.
That is easy to do!
That is all we had to do.
That is all one has to do:
One step at a time.
One day at a time.
One goal at a time.
Then, you just keep going and going and going,
To the point that it hurts to stop.
We were told,
One foot in front of the next,
One foot in front of the next.
That is easy to do!
That is all we had to do.
That is all one has to do:
One step at a time.
One day at a time.
One goal at a time.
Then, you just keep going and going and going,
To the point that it hurts to stop.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The couple to watch tomorrow!
The world is awaiting the royal wedding tomorrow. Media is full of all sorts of news: which officials got invited, what cake they will have, what dress the bride will wear, she is doing her own make up? Why?
In the world of wars in Libya, Afghanistan,..., radiations in Japan, unrest in Syria, tornado in Alabama,...the world wishes to escape it all, crawl into a fairy tale story of a prince marrying a regular girl, the girl becoming a princess, and feeding girls the princess stories. Fashion, music, festivities, and all the glamor coming with it are fun and nice to watch. I love celebrations, creation of beauty, demonstrating and performing arts, I will probably watch parts of it myself. However, I do not think the royal young couple are the couple the world should set their eyes on tomorrow.
I beg to differ. Tomorrow, the world should be watching a different couple, learning from them, admire and cheer for them, celebrate them, and make them their kids' role models, not princes and princesses who are born royalty or become royalty by association. Rather those who reach for the stars despite all barriers and odds, who stand next to each other till death sets them apart. I am talking about the all American couple Senator Gabriell Giffords and Captain Mark Kelly.
It was less than four months ago, on January 8, 2011, that Senator Gabriell Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head while having a town hall meeting with her constituents on a weekend. Captain Kelly, her husband, was supposed to fly on STS-133 but the incident made him leave training and preparations at Huston to be next to his wife in Arizona, where he was told she might have 4-6 months to live. He did not fly with that mission. Every day he was next to her silent body, that eventually opened her eyes one day, communicated with her husband by rubbing his wedding band, telling him she knows him, loves him, she kept the tradition of defying odds, and encouraging her husband to continue making dreams reality.
Tomorrow, he will be the Captain of STS-134, the last flight of Endeavor, and his wife, miraculously and constantly improving, flew to Florida to be there at KSC and send him away, along with president Obama and 40,000 or more people at KSC, and the nation and hopefully the world watching them. I will be watching the launch from our auditorium with our own Senator Mikulski. I encourage you to watch history on Friday 3:47 pm EST on NASA TV too. The couple to watch tomorrow is not the royal couple, it is Mark Kelly and Gabriell Gifford, dedicated to their goals and ideals next to each other, moving forward!
Related:
Obama's moving speech at a nice ceremony for Arizona victims few days after the event (although I could not get the audience cheering at the beginning when people were killed and shot and mourning):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbJmXQDIGA
In the world of wars in Libya, Afghanistan,..., radiations in Japan, unrest in Syria, tornado in Alabama,...the world wishes to escape it all, crawl into a fairy tale story of a prince marrying a regular girl, the girl becoming a princess, and feeding girls the princess stories. Fashion, music, festivities, and all the glamor coming with it are fun and nice to watch. I love celebrations, creation of beauty, demonstrating and performing arts, I will probably watch parts of it myself. However, I do not think the royal young couple are the couple the world should set their eyes on tomorrow.
I beg to differ. Tomorrow, the world should be watching a different couple, learning from them, admire and cheer for them, celebrate them, and make them their kids' role models, not princes and princesses who are born royalty or become royalty by association. Rather those who reach for the stars despite all barriers and odds, who stand next to each other till death sets them apart. I am talking about the all American couple Senator Gabriell Giffords and Captain Mark Kelly.
It was less than four months ago, on January 8, 2011, that Senator Gabriell Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head while having a town hall meeting with her constituents on a weekend. Captain Kelly, her husband, was supposed to fly on STS-133 but the incident made him leave training and preparations at Huston to be next to his wife in Arizona, where he was told she might have 4-6 months to live. He did not fly with that mission. Every day he was next to her silent body, that eventually opened her eyes one day, communicated with her husband by rubbing his wedding band, telling him she knows him, loves him, she kept the tradition of defying odds, and encouraging her husband to continue making dreams reality.
Tomorrow, he will be the Captain of STS-134, the last flight of Endeavor, and his wife, miraculously and constantly improving, flew to Florida to be there at KSC and send him away, along with president Obama and 40,000 or more people at KSC, and the nation and hopefully the world watching them. I will be watching the launch from our auditorium with our own Senator Mikulski. I encourage you to watch history on Friday 3:47 pm EST on NASA TV too. The couple to watch tomorrow is not the royal couple, it is Mark Kelly and Gabriell Gifford, dedicated to their goals and ideals next to each other, moving forward!
Related:
Obama's moving speech at a nice ceremony for Arizona victims few days after the event (although I could not get the audience cheering at the beginning when people were killed and shot and mourning):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbJmXQDIGA
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Turn of the events
When we meet a new person we admire and respect or simply like, when we work on getting to know them, or even better finding a new friend in them and we succeed, we get thrilled for having them in our lives, for them letting us be part of their lives. However, often times, we may learn that in fact we were meant to be in their lives in that point in time, that they needed us, more than we needed them, to open a new window, give some hope, lend a hand, or simply be there for them.
Monday, April 25, 2011
كفر به احساس
تمام شعرهاى دنيا گفته شد.
هر كس در هر عصرى،
همان شادى ها را چشيد و دردها را كشيد و سرود و رفت.
اگر شعر درمان نباشد چه؟
اگر شعر، ريشه دردها باشد چه؟
شايد بايد بى دين و ايمان شد،
كفر گفت به احساس،
برود پى كارش،
ديگر جرات نكند كسى را دست بيندازد.
نه تو را، نه من را، نه هر كس ديگرى را.
شايد بازار شعر بايد كساد شود.
مشتريانش كمتر، تلفاتش كمتر.
پيش از آن اما، در سوگ شعر شعرى بايد سرود.
هر كس در هر عصرى،
همان شادى ها را چشيد و دردها را كشيد و سرود و رفت.
اگر شعر درمان نباشد چه؟
اگر شعر، ريشه دردها باشد چه؟
شايد بايد بى دين و ايمان شد،
كفر گفت به احساس،
برود پى كارش،
ديگر جرات نكند كسى را دست بيندازد.
نه تو را، نه من را، نه هر كس ديگرى را.
شايد بازار شعر بايد كساد شود.
مشتريانش كمتر، تلفاتش كمتر.
پيش از آن اما، در سوگ شعر شعرى بايد سرود.
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