Saturday, August 20, 2011
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Cages
Looking at people around me I have recognized so many limitations in their lives, just like cages. However, most of these cages are either made by themselves, or approved by themselves once others made it for them. I am always amazed how some people can easily live in such cages all their lives and blame fate and destiny, without the smallest effort to get out. Life is really sad!
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The Unseen
O' the Unseen but always present!
Who can I ask for you? Where can I search for you?
To know you, I passed through all the world!
I asked you from all the people, all the world.
Now I am back without answer,
Asking you about you!
O, Unseen who is always present, Who can I ask you about?
Who can I ask for you? Where can I search for you?
To know you, I passed through all the world!
I asked you from all the people, all the world.
Now I am back without answer,
Asking you about you!
O, Unseen who is always present, Who can I ask you about?
River of Life
They asked me to draw river of my life!
I started thinking: what features it does.
I draw a face, deeply in thought,
Then ahead of that, ways of changing.
I tried to change whatever I could,
Till I reached the peak, it was a waterfall.
Yes, that is true, I was independent!
I waited long to gain it my own.
Since then life was wide lands of dawn,
blessed with sunshine of nice people in my life.
I walked all that way with so many up and downs,
Till I turned to a lotus,
laying on the water with peace and solace.
I still can feel the beauty of that time,
When I was so light, like a butterfly.
What happened to me that I lost my wings?
What made me so heavy, not able to move around?
I am feeling lost, trapped in the mud,
No more beauty, no wings to fly!
Yet no challenge, no attempt to move,
Am I dead yet? Or just ready to die?
My soul is dead, lost all the transcend,
all those moments of spiritual joy...
I started thinking: what features it does.
I draw a face, deeply in thought,
Then ahead of that, ways of changing.
I tried to change whatever I could,
Till I reached the peak, it was a waterfall.
Yes, that is true, I was independent!
I waited long to gain it my own.
Since then life was wide lands of dawn,
blessed with sunshine of nice people in my life.
I walked all that way with so many up and downs,
Till I turned to a lotus,
laying on the water with peace and solace.
I still can feel the beauty of that time,
When I was so light, like a butterfly.
What happened to me that I lost my wings?
What made me so heavy, not able to move around?
I am feeling lost, trapped in the mud,
No more beauty, no wings to fly!
Yet no challenge, no attempt to move,
Am I dead yet? Or just ready to die?
My soul is dead, lost all the transcend,
all those moments of spiritual joy...
Strange!
Something feels strange! It is not very new, but it is the most clear in recent times! I am not sure what is going on! Something is not quite right with me! I ask myself: "Is it a midlife crisis?" Not sure, I am not that old yet, at least I am not feeling old at all!
Lately I have been thinking of my past life, of all those nice Ramadan I recall since a kid. I am lost, totally lost! What is that I am so different from those times? Is it being away from my culture and society? Maybe it is an identity crisis! Who am I? I feel strange, being me in this life, in this society! It came to me at last what people were asking me in past 4 years! And I am feeling so lost!
Lately I have been thinking of my past life, of all those nice Ramadan I recall since a kid. I am lost, totally lost! What is that I am so different from those times? Is it being away from my culture and society? Maybe it is an identity crisis! Who am I? I feel strange, being me in this life, in this society! It came to me at last what people were asking me in past 4 years! And I am feeling so lost!
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Story of the Jasmine
A gardener, a divine man once,
planted a flower in the garden of kindness.
When he would leave, he said
Some day sooner or later,
His memento would remain,
The Jasmine in the garden.
Every sunset Jasmine fragrance
was diffuse in the air,
Filling in the nostrils
The fragrance of God
***
Those with no sign of goodness,
saw the beauty of Jasmine,
as salience of their ugliness.
Insensible passerby
Walked over the Jasmine
Broke its stem
Those merciless guys.
Leaned against the wall, the young Jasmine
Ready to blossom, but was too late;
The spring was already gone.
Hidden from strangers,
In the darkness of night,
Another gardener took her
Planted her in a flower-bed.
Since then for a thousand years,
The air fills with Jasmine fragrance
However the place of the Jasmine
Is still unknown to all humans.
planted a flower in the garden of kindness.
When he would leave, he said
Some day sooner or later,
His memento would remain,
The Jasmine in the garden.
Every sunset Jasmine fragrance
was diffuse in the air,
Filling in the nostrils
The fragrance of God
***
Those with no sign of goodness,
saw the beauty of Jasmine,
as salience of their ugliness.
Insensible passerby
Walked over the Jasmine
Broke its stem
Those merciless guys.
Leaned against the wall, the young Jasmine
Ready to blossom, but was too late;
The spring was already gone.
Hidden from strangers,
In the darkness of night,
Another gardener took her
Planted her in a flower-bed.
Since then for a thousand years,
The air fills with Jasmine fragrance
However the place of the Jasmine
Is still unknown to all humans.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Life Without TV
Right after the New Year`s vacation we turned off the TV and put it in the kitchen next to the freezer. Although this extra and out of place device has filled the capacity of our small kitchen, once in a while we have the chance to look instead at a bouquet of flowers in its original place.
Of course, this is not an everlasting decision and we did it temporarily with the agreement of all the family members. And the main reason for this is not at all political. The truth is that my second son, Amin, is in the last year of high school and is trying to get into a university, inshallah. So, after a lot of consideration we came to the conclusion that the most intrusive interruption for studying was this "magic box." Therefore, we divorced ourselves from it for a couple of months to see what would happen. (I should mention that my little daughter sometimes takes an extension cord to the kitchen and watches a couple of programs in the afternoon.)
However, the most interesting point is the result of this decision. Believe me, all of us feel calm and peaceful, much more than we ever did before. Neither will the over-hyped films walk across our nerves, nor will the violent scenes of other movies bring us nightmares, and we will not be obliged to give a reply, either mumbling or loud, to their one sided news and supposedly enlightening opinions, and we would certainly not be informed of the trashy news about increasing explorations of all matter of gadgetry and faked “genuine” pretenders who everyday in a corner fool the radio and TV journalists.
Even though this peaceful situation will soon finish and would not last much longer, I can say sincerely that life without TV is a joyful life. You should try it once, even if it is for a few days. Try it and see how your time increases and how you will spend more time with your family, finding new topics to discuss, not to mention the peaceful calm sleep you will have.
Of course, this is not an everlasting decision and we did it temporarily with the agreement of all the family members. And the main reason for this is not at all political. The truth is that my second son, Amin, is in the last year of high school and is trying to get into a university, inshallah. So, after a lot of consideration we came to the conclusion that the most intrusive interruption for studying was this "magic box." Therefore, we divorced ourselves from it for a couple of months to see what would happen. (I should mention that my little daughter sometimes takes an extension cord to the kitchen and watches a couple of programs in the afternoon.)
However, the most interesting point is the result of this decision. Believe me, all of us feel calm and peaceful, much more than we ever did before. Neither will the over-hyped films walk across our nerves, nor will the violent scenes of other movies bring us nightmares, and we will not be obliged to give a reply, either mumbling or loud, to their one sided news and supposedly enlightening opinions, and we would certainly not be informed of the trashy news about increasing explorations of all matter of gadgetry and faked “genuine” pretenders who everyday in a corner fool the radio and TV journalists.
Even though this peaceful situation will soon finish and would not last much longer, I can say sincerely that life without TV is a joyful life. You should try it once, even if it is for a few days. Try it and see how your time increases and how you will spend more time with your family, finding new topics to discuss, not to mention the peaceful calm sleep you will have.
***
[Translated from the Persian weblog of Dr. Ahmad Shirzad, Professor of Physics in Sharif University in Tehran and former Member of Iranian Parliament from Esfahan, who decided with his family to turn off the TV two months ago, at the end of this year`s Nowruz holiday season.] (http://shirzad.ir/cgi-bin/mtcgi/mt-tb.cgi/122)
Monday, May 08, 2006
Known or unknown!
I have a strange feeling about introducing myself on the net, as a webloger or sometimes as someone who put a comment for others. I agree that it is not good to hide, and everyone should be enough brave and confident to tell others who he/she is. But at the same time, someone like me who is no one (!) trying to introduce myself and make it like I am someone! I am really confused!
My weblog is nothing, very few readers, and not that much interesting topics. But I write because writing helps my busy mind to calm down! Actually when I have the opportunity to talk to someone in person and recieve some feedback, I don`t feel like writing! Then what I write here belongs to those waves of mind in lonely times, when there is no one to talk to, and of course I always hope for some feedback!
My weblog is nothing, very few readers, and not that much interesting topics. But I write because writing helps my busy mind to calm down! Actually when I have the opportunity to talk to someone in person and recieve some feedback, I don`t feel like writing! Then what I write here belongs to those waves of mind in lonely times, when there is no one to talk to, and of course I always hope for some feedback!
Monday, March 06, 2006
Peace Education
"Peace Education" is more meaningful than ever to me. I feel like this is the necessity of today`s world. What can we do for it? Where can we start? ...
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