No room for a new dictator

مردمی که می‌خواهند سرپای خود بايستند و حياتی کريمانه را تجربه کنند جا دارد که از نخستين قدم‌هايی که به ناکامی‌‌شان می‌انجامد با بيشترين دقت‌ها پيشگيری کنند. تولد اينجانب نه هفتم مهر که روز آشنايی با شماست. حتی اگر روز هفتم مهر به دنيا آمده بودم نيز جا نداشت حرکت شما به کيش شخصيت آلوده شود

...The people who are willing to live based on their own thoughts and with dignity shall be cautious on steps they take which may prevent them to be able to do so. My bithday is not Mehr 7th but it is on the day of knowing you all and if it were on Mehr 7th, still it would be no room for your movement to get impure with an individual...

From Mousavi's latest statement ( 28-Sep-09).

Green night

We sang all green songs with our green signs last night. We did not know each other but we did know with which color our language speaks these days and we spoke, proudly.

Life of a mind

My train trips these days are devoted to reading a book titled "In search of memory" by Eric Kandel. It's the story of a refugee kid of Nazis-era, a husband, a father, a man and a Nobel prize winner.
And my sharing for today from this book:
...But the argument with Denise about spending more time with her and Paul did cause me to pause and think. As a consequence I learned from this argument the obvious lesson that hard thinking, especially if it leads to even one useful idea, is much more valuable than simply running more experiments. I was later reminded of a comment made about Jim Watson by Marx Perutz, the Viennese-born British structural biologist: "Jim never made the mistake of confusing hard work with hard thinking".

Vision

I do an experiment on people with different visions; good, not bad and worse sights. It takes like an hour for each. The way that they handle the entire experiments- which for them gets boring and also tiring after a while- tells me how different their tolerances are for this specific experiment but doesn't tell me much about what kinds of people they are. I only have to judge their eyes not their characters and that could be a good practice, I hope.

How we read each other's minds

Tell me tomorrow is ours...

I wish you

First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved. But if it’s not like that, be brief in forgetting And after you’ve forgotten, don’t keep anything. I wish that wouldn’t happen, but if it does and you forget, you could be a person without desperation.
I also wish you may have a lot of friends, And even if they are bad and inconsequent, They should be brave and true And, at least one of them, should be completely reliable.
But because life is the way it is, I also wish you may have enemies. Not many or too little, just in the right number So that you will have to question your own certainties and truths as well. And may there be among them at least one who is just and fair, So that you can never feel too secure in your ideas.
I wish you may be useful but not irreplaceable And in your bad moments, When you have nothing else, That sense of usefulness will keep you on your feet.
So equally, I wish you to be tolerant, Not with those that make little mistakes, because that is easy, but with those that make a lot of mistakes and can’t help it. And make good use of this tolerance to set an example to others.
I wish that, being young, you don’t mature too quickly And once you’re mature, don’t insist in getting younger. And when you’re old, don’t feel despaired Because each age has its pains and pleasures And we need them both in our lives.
By the way, I wish you to be sad at least one day So on that day you may discover That to laugh everyday is good, To laugh often is boring And to laugh constantly is an illness.
I wish that you may discover With maximum urgency That, above and in spite of everything, There are people around you who are depressed, Unhappy and unjustly treated.
I wish you to caress a dog, To feed a bird and to listen to its chirp as well As it sings triumphantly early in the morning. Because this way you will feel good for no reason.
And then I wish you may sow a seed Even if it is really small. And may you accompany it in its growth. So that you will discover how many lives a tree is made of.
I wish as well that you may have money, because we need to be practical. And that, at least once a year, You put some of this money in front of you and say “This is mine”. So it is very clear who owns who.
Also, I wish none of your loved ones may die, But if some of them do, I wish you may cry without regret and without feeling guilty for the things you never said or the things you never did.
Finally, I wish for you that being a man, you may have a good woman and being a woman, you may have a good man. Tomorrow and the day after.
If all these things would happen to you, Then I wish for you nothing more.

-Victor Hugo

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From Mousavi's latest statement:

People of Iran
...It is obvious that your efforts to restore peace to the society are not going to be responded wisely. Dangerous days are ahead...

Note

I arrived at the office that I work, someone had put a paper on my desk; a report that said: "The university can no longer be the host to Dr... as he's cooperating with a TV channel that has called the Iranian students who protested against the recent Iranian election's result "riots". I got stuck in an elevator for more than 2 hours, I was the only person and as they think the first one ever. They asked for my room number after getting me out of that lift and they came back after a couple of days to see if I was doing fine and to explain what went wrong. I wasn't there, they'll come back. A scholar who's always polite and the warmest person in our faculty; the first gay man that I've met. And Life is good.

I don't want to tell...

We chose to get out of Iran but I don't remember where exactly was our destination. We never set a destination and I did not want to be one of those who feels nostalgic all the time. I did not ignore all the bad memories and did not keep only the good ones but something happened; the bitter memories seemed sweet when they got old and far. It was like making different stories out of one thing to maybe feel happy. I see people feeling homesick and they write about having a big heart that always beats for that soil. I don't want to live where I don't live and I don't want to feel nostalgic when "I" chose to leave and I don't want to forget the reasons that made us leave there. I don't like to tell people that we had a great civilization back 2500 years ago and we were doing just fine till the Arabs attacked us and I don't like to say what you see in the media is not the true face of the Iranian people and we dance too, and inside thinking and saying but we're warmer and more polite but we do with our kindness as we do with our money; spending it when there is a real reason and a worthy person and what is kindness, we define all its properties. I don't like to tell people we're not religious God forbidden and we hate people being prejudice against other races but feel offensive when people think we speak Arabic.
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Some Iranians blame all the problems in Iran to such and such causes as sarcastically mentioned above, I obviously don't think like that.