Update...

We were 35 in high school. 7 of us entered different majors in different universities. The rest got married soon after they graduated high school as a small town's custom would expect them to do. We drifted apart and every now and then I would search through the internet or Facebook to see if I could find a trace of any of them but no success, until recently that I heard news on the smartest of them all, one of the 7. She had an accident in one of the streets of Tehran. She passed away and left her little child behind.

And I report!

Next week my work will start. My research topic + my future boss + knowing almost all my lab-mates were enough of the reasons to make my mind on joining the lab and at the time I thought: "No shocking surprises perhaps". I hope if I was not totally right I'd be able to deal and think like a grown up confident person.
And one lesson from the last two years would be getting involved in more than one activity. I'm finally going to take a painting course once a week, it's time I think (need).

Photo for fun

Now that I look it gets more clear that we could be good friends! ;D

Nostalgia

Kian

Passion

A restless mind is a mind that does not let you think the job is done or close to be done. Doesn't let you feel settled, it's always in search, sometimes of something not so clear but I call it passion when it's clear and not totally blind. Now that I think, I've been thirsty to see that passion in people as long as I can remember, a passionate love between two lovers, a passionate friendship, a passionate work and you know what? I feel excited for what I can see, it's like a a permission to fantasize about life that has a potential to get so ordinary a lot.
All these passions can last if you want them to last, otherwise they become part of your past that no longer their traces exist in your present. A painter cannot be novel if he does not have that passion, so a scientist.
Science cannot be looked as a job, you cannot have that great wish to find, to reach if you haven't been heartily in search. Science is nothing but constant search. I've always been looking for that sense of excitement in scholars whether I was studying in Tehran or here in Rotterdam and I've had higher expectation in here... higher hopes to see professors with passions and not with jobs. Science is certainly not a job.

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Jaane- Maryam closed his eyes.