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'What man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.' Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

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Removing a beggar in Tehran.

Sunshine in Sheffield

Today I couldn't stay in! So I took my camera and walked in the city to hunt nice pictures. The atmosphere of the city was amazing. People were enjoying nice weather and trying to forget what's going to happen tomorrow. People were so relax seemed the day would last forever. Although I didn't know anyone there, I wasn't a stranger. No one blocked my view. People were laughing and they were happy. We all were there out for one thing: The Sun! No one could sell it or cover it. There was no competition over it. It was plenty of sunshine for everyone and each person was enjoying in its own way.

If you want the other photos taken today just click here.

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Life is a pleasant custom
Life wears wings as wide as death
It leaps to the dimensions of love
Life is nothing that might from my mind and your mind in the tip of habit’s shelf
Life is the attraction of a hand that reaps
Life is the first black fig in the acrid mouth of summer
Life is the dimension of a tree in the eyes of an insect
Life is the experience of bat in the darkness
Life is a strange sense experienced by a migrating bird
Life is the whistling of a train ringing in the sleep of a bridge
Life is like looking at a garden through the closed window of an airplane
The news of a rocket flying to the space
Touching the solitude of moon
The thought of smelling the flower in other planets

Life is washing a plate

Life is finding a penny in the street gutter
Life is the square of the mirror
Life is the flower multiplied to eternity
Life is the earth multiplied in our heartbeats
Life is a simple and monotonous geometry of breaths

Where I am, let it be so
The sky is mine
The window, thought, air, love, earth is mine
What signifies?
If mushrooms of nostalgia
Sometimes grow?

Results of my color test!

I did a color test few days ago and the following answer came up:

Your color is black! The color of night. Serene and mysterious, black conjures up images of elegant evening gowns, dashing tuxedos, and gleaming limousines. Traditionally a symbol of success, black also represents power and uncompromising demand for perfection. Not surprisingly, you tend to get challenging goals for yourself and do whatever it takes to achieve them - your strenght of character is second to none. This unfaltering determination, along with your natural elegence, impress people. Black, is the color of professionalism and achievement!

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Hope!

Two papers ready to publish on my desk, few positions on the web ready to apply for and plenty of time but I am sitting on my black sofa doing nothing. I need time to recover. Recovery from what? From something which I knew it! From something that I predicted according to all facts that I knew! Then what’s wrong with me? I feel cold just like black coal. I had a wonderful weekend with my friends and I knew what I will be told today morning but everything changed when I heard that news. I am not going to share the news with you and I am sorry for that but I think there is something that I am missing here. A very very dear friend told me that I am negative! I don’t know. Believe me or not I had a great hope although I had predicted the result. I knew it but I did not want to accept it. I predicted but I didn’t prepare myself for it. Now I have to accept it because it happened, I was informed officially and nothing on the earth can change it. Do I know myself? Or there is something else? We know something but we don’t want to accept it? We feel a pain but we ignore it? Things passing on back of my mind so fast in few seconds, trying to analyse the situation. Then asking my self what’s the point of hoping when we know something? Or we shouldn’t hope to something when we already know the results! Is there something else? Or its our nature? Business rules say don’t bet on loosing horse. Then why we bet, cross our finger and hope that something change it? There should be something. A gravity or energy that drives us to try harder and hope to changes. I know I will be fine and this is not the end of the world but! Why we are hoping? We feel something, we know something and then we hope we get something else out of it! I wonder if I know myself enough! How is that possible to feel so heavy when I already knew it? This is the closest thing to craziness that ever happened to me. I wish I could answer it. Is it because I don’t like loosing? I have learned that more mistakes I make better I get. I learned a lot from this experience regardless of its result. It told me that I have a great potential and good skills and its only lack of experience which stops me from getting it. But still I can’t get over it. The hope bubble has exploded although I knew it would happen. I wasn’t ready for that explosion or I didn’t want to accept it regardless of all those known facts. There is something else and I am going to find it out.

Basic Instinct

Basic instinct is one of the strongest desires that human has. Its shape and our taste have not changed after centuries although some of us are using new toys to take the pleasure more or are using tools to control it. I think now you know what I am talking about. Yes the basic instinct is still tempting and we are not yet independent of it because it is part of our nature. I agree we can’t do much about it but also eating is one of our basic needs but it has changed a lot. But this one has not and if you don’t believe me just pay a visit to Sex Museum in Amsterdam.

All right let's back to the subject again. How far are we ready to go to response to this strong desire? Of course one of the ways or the most common one is having relationship with some one else. Yes that is right according to our nature and it is the healthy one. But there is a question mark over there. Well I am always asking myself is that the only reason for starting a relationship or there are more reasons for beginning a relationship with some one else. If I am going for a relationship shall I hide it? Shall I inform all my friends about it? How serious might the relationship get?

Did you get me? Ok, let me just say my question on the other words. Is responding to our basic instinct the aim of the relationship or having a good healthy relationship will response to the Basic Instinct and we will be satisfied? And if the answer is Yes, then do I have to tell the others or it would be better to hide it?

I think apart from our basic instincts we have much stronger emotions such as love that we have to response to them as well. I am sure a relationship on the basis of our Basic Instinct is not able of responding to our higher needs and it has got nothing else to offer us. We would feel cheap in these type of relationships because it just responses to our basic need and it doesn't offer anything else. These relationships do not last long and we usually recall them with regret. We usually don't talk about it with others and we hide it. Even we don’t inform our closest friends about it. Because the other side of the relationship might not be our type too as he or she is also following his or her basic instinct too. Here the old story might repeat and our feelings might hurt. It is so difficult to recover from this type of relationships as we exchange our great feeling and dignity with the basic instinct. We do not have much to share with the partner except when we get to the point of responding the basic instinct. On the other hand the only thing in common is Basic Instinct.

In contrast, there are other types of relationships that response to emotions such as love. These types of relationships of course have potential of responding to our basic instinct but they offer more than that. They offer us companion, courage, trust, respect, love, support, share and compromise. We never regret them and if they do don’t last long for some reason we just regret why it didn't last. They are sweet and we are proud of that. We don't hide them and they usually end up into long friendship or even more such as marriage which is a kind of formal announcement. To have such a relationship we need to spend more time and be patient.

Bottom line, those who starts a relationship in response to their basic instinct, will be dependent forever because they just are at the first stage. The old story will repeat for them all the time. They are afraid of talking about it with their friends or even they upset their friends. Having a relationship is normal and every one should have a healthy one. But before starting a one ask yourself what exactly you are looking for and what’s the price? If you are not sure about it just have a nice conversation with your friends about it. I am sure they will understand you and your needs and they will do their best to help you!

We are lucky!

Close your eyes for a moment and think! Think about those who are not born yet. Think about those who will never be born in this world. Think about all those processes and events happened until you were born. Then you will see how lucky we are. We are more than lucky that we came to this born. It could be someone else. It could be another person. So don’t waste your time. Go ahead; know the world you are living in. Explore your environment. Try to communicate with other people and understand them. Know yourself; explore all your potentials and feelings. You have only one life in this world and if you will be born again, it won’t be the same. Don’t make yourself busy with small things. The world is yours to discover it. See how the world is working. The sky, the earth, oceans; all are yours while you are in this world. Ignore all those sadness and try to love this world. Believe me nothing will go wrong. There is no absolute and the rules are created by the others who came before us. So, love people, enjoy your time and try to see as many as people you can. We have only one life and we are so lucky that we are here at this time.

Happy Norouz 1385

To help or not to help!

Have you ever been in a situation asking yourself to help or not to help? Then you told yourself “Oh, shut up, of course you must help and you should participate if you can, so do it, do it”. All right you decided finally after not a very long argue with yourself. You step forward with pride, you announce that you are ready to help. Up to here everything is fine, done and done! Is it really? I mean if you are not helping! What do I mean? I am sure you know what I mean. After few days, few hours or few second you realise that you did not help and just made the case worse! I remember once I was driving in a motorway close to my home in Tehran. I saw a blind walking on the shoulder of the motorway. It was a dangerous situation and he could get killed. I stopped my car, I went to him, asked him if he needed help, took his hand and helped him to find the pedestrian crossing. He yelled on me that he wanted to stay in the motorway! Now, did I help or I did not. I have been to many situations like this which I didn’t know I shall help or not to. Sometimes I am so conservative and I prefer not to help. But it is difficult seeing a friend of yours asking for help and you pretend that you don’t know. Sometimes I do my best in order to help a friend but usually something goes wrong. I wish I could sit in my time machine, going back and diverting anything I had done before! But there is no time machine and I have to face it, I have to accept its responsibility or I have to stop helping!

Few days ago I did something and I am so angry of myself. I wish I could do something about it. But too late and there is no time machine.

Operation Dinner

Recipe:

Go to the closest Sainsbury’s and buy the following items:
- chicken nuggets
- root
- mushroom
- potato croquettes
- mozzarella
- tomato
- cucumber
- onion

Shopping time: 20 min (including queuing)
Preparation and cooking time: 45 min (including chopping)
Eating time: 8 min

Enjoy!

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24 silver ocean

Allow me to welcome "24 silver ocean" . Hope to hear alot from it.

A message

A very good friend of mine (PC) sent me this great message, I just want to share it with you:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life.
We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbour. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete. Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to > you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you,because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

by George Carlin

Religion

Physicist and Nobel prizewinner Stephen Weinberg describes religion as an insult to human dignity. ‘Without it,’ he says, ‘you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.’

What if!

I was sitting on my couch and thinking of absolutely nothing. I am only away few sentences from finishing my thesis correction. I have done major corrections and I need to go through few minor corrections. It is only matter of few hours! But I can’t work tonight! I can’t do anything tonight! I am hibernated! My brain is frozen and is not working! So I put my thesis side. Nothing interesting on TV, not even a fifth class Hollywood movie! Then I decided to take shower. May be it helps, but it didn’t. So again on the couch and staring on switched off TV. Then I remembered my earlier conversation with AMN. What if the world was different? No, the world is fine, I believe! What if people of the earth were different? What if people were more friendly, more trustful and honest? Why we can’t trust each other? Why we abuse our friends? Why few of us are working so hard and the rest doing nothing? I know we are not perfect and even if we were perfect then the life was so boring. But I think we could use our talent and power to do more positive and constructive things than destroying each other! We could do many things and anybody could be part of it. But everyday we see people lying and hurting each other. People are becoming more and more selfish. We know that we can’t reach out objectives without others but we do not respect their objectives and ideas. We just want to reach our targets by the cheapest way in the shortest time! What if all people I knew and I met were still here and I could trust them!

PS There is a good movie on TV and I have to go!

Art, Truth & Politics

Please read this post from My BattleField, I have found it very interesting.