The memory ...

That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed so you'd be spared your pain.

Henry Ducard!

طرح مبارزه با بد حجابی در روسیه

photo: BBCPersian.com

When the stupid question trick didn't work ...

When it is just 5 minutes left and the professor is about to start a new topic, somebody should make a sacrifice, ruin his reputation and do the stupid question trick because otherwise you have to sit there for another 15 minutes before the professor realizes that he has gone 10 minutes overtime.
How does it work? ... Simple, just make a complete fool of yourself and ask a very stupid question. The professor will be busy answering your question for the remaining time of the class.
But when the trick doesn't work, it really hurts ...

The Namesake

Everything that happens since that day has been a gift.

Einstein

The Orthodox Jewish leader in New York, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, sent a very direct telegraph to Einstein: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer Paid. 50 words."
Einstein used only about half his allotted number of words:

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

For more on this subject refer to TIME.com

تکیه بر تقوی و دانش در طریقت کافریست
راهرو گر صد هنر دارد توکّل بایدش

حافظ

The Caterpillar Effect

These days walking around campus is not as easy as it used to be. You have to watch out not to step over the caterpillars and at the same time you have to look up so that they don't end up in your mouth or eyes.
Wondering why I am worried about stepping over them? In my opinion, the way we look at the caterpillars is the same way God looks at us. All these little creatures like to do is to climb up something, as we like to climb up in the course of our life.
I am not stepping over them, so that the next time God is passing by to see how is everything here down on the earth, he doesn't step over me. I have had enough already!

The non-delivered gift

Old Story

Once again, God is singing the same old song, telling the same old story. The same old story that I hate.
Every moment is like a deja vu, and I can't stop it again.
I can't stop it again.

Vibration!

There is no point in putting your cell phone on the vibration mode and then leave it on the table in a meeting. The noise that it makes is even more horrible.

Hummingbird ...

When I see a hummingbird, I just stop and look at it as long as it is flying there. They fly so smoothly that I feel happy. The other day, I was walking down the street and bumped into one of them. It was flying and I was looking. But the exciting thing was that it started flying literally in front of my eyes for like fifteen seconds, standing still in the air and staring at me. Just beautiful …
Next time you see one of them, stop for a second and enjoy the maneuver.

Something ... Someone ...

Do something great for someone everyday and don't get caught.

G. W. Cummings Sr.
Lessons at the Fence Post

Things happen ...

We live and learn ...

Dr. Milani

Yourself

Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

50 life lessons

The color of Love

Love is red, although sometimes it appears a little blueish. But one thing is for sure, it is not green and never will be green.

دل خویش را بگفتم چو تو دوست میگرفتم
نه عجب که خوبرویان بکنند بی وفایی

سخنی که با تو دارم به نسیم صبح گفتم
دگری نمی شناسم تو ببر که آشنایی

سعدی

The boy who cried wolf

I am sure all of you have read or heard the story of the boy who cried wolf because he was bored. When the real wolf came, he cried wolf again but nobody helped him since he was a liar. The point that I don't understand is the moral of the story. When villagers didn't help the boy, their sheep were scattered and slaughtered. So the moral of the story should be if somebody is lying, listen to him/her every single time or you might be the looser at the end of the day.

اگر ژاله هر قطره ای در شدی
چو خر مهره بازار از او پر شدی

سعدی

What are you doing when you are not doing anything?

You may say "nothing". But according to an article in TIME we are traveling in time when we are doing nothing. When our mind is not involved in any task, it travels in time. Either reviewing the past memories or foreseeing the future. The thing is that if you have some distracting memory in your head or some not very pleasant event coming in the near future, you may get even more anxious when you are idle because your mind starts exploring them.

Whip Cream

I am starting to believe that whip cream is a complicated thing, not necessarily the most complicated concept in the world but one of those that our little brain needs some time to process. I was in the Starbucks the other day and two girls entered the Starbucks talking to each other. The guy ask them about their orders and one of them without any hesitation started ordering:
Can I get a Triple Grande 140 degree no foam cinnamon dolce latte with caramel ...

The guy asked:
Do you want whip cream on it?

And the girl was thinking for like 10-15 seconds to decide whether she liked whip cream on it or not. Anyway, the funny part was that the answer was no and the order came with whip cream.