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When you introduce yourself to someone you want, and they don’t want you, trying to see their flaws and faults doesn’t make things better. Because it can be seen as: someone with all their flaws still didn’t want you. The feeling that someone was so good yet didn’t want you is far more bearable. My... Read all
In the late elementary school years, I used to get money weekly from my father. However, this money was barely enough to cover a week’s round-trip taxi fare, and since Friday was a holiday, I could use that day’s share to buy something or save it. A midweek day off or a snowfall meant more freedom, ... Read all
The Little Fish campaign briefly states:“Placing a fish on the Haft-Seen table is neither part of our traditional customs nor an ethical act. These lovely creatures are very sensitive to movement and impact, and such events can cause them to have a stroke. Keeping them in a confined space is like co... Read all
Before this, I always said I was in a specific period of my life, but in reality, I had been in the previous period all along. That is, that previous chapter of my life hadn’t ended yet. I was at its end, but it wasn’t over. Through a plan, I put myself under the most intense psychological pressures... Read all
The -19 degree temperature leaves no room for thinking about why I’m waiting for the clock to turn from 11:52 to 12. These days my life is so stagnant that, just for a change, I stir my coffee in the opposite direction of usual. Today I rearranged the elements of my room. The apparent goal was to ha... Read all
It started on the morning of September 23, 1999 at 6:30 AM. After 16 years of schooling, today on January 24, 2016, it finally ended with my bachelor’s thesis defense. Well, at least for now. ... Read all
I realized that people get sad when they live in a complicated way for a while, and then simple. For a while, their heart beats not only for themselves but also for someone else, and then just for themselves. For a while, they carry stress, and then not. For a while, they walk together, and the... Read all
Our path, thoughts, and beliefs are things that we have created ourselves. We should use them to our advantage in facing challenges because they are our own wealth. We determine the way of life for the next generation. By understanding the new modern world and its challenges, and finding solutions f... Read all
I started the day with a traditional effort to be cheerful, but by the afternoon, I was back home and realized that nothing significant had happened. Logically, something should have. I was sprawled on the couch, checking the world on my laptop to keep up, when a friend texted asking where I was.I f... Read all
Today, as I was heading home, I had a severe neck pain from standing all day. To ease the pain, I involuntarily tilted my head towards the sky and realized how much I missed the stars. How much I longed to watch the sky.The last vivid image of a starry sky away from the city I have in my mind is fro... Read all
Today, after a long time, I spent the entire day with my family. We visited old parts of the city that we hadn't been to for a while: Maqbarat al-Sho'ara, Shahnaz, the Tabriz Bazaar, and Baghe Golestan. The last one was more nostalgic for my father than for me.I also tried to mend a fractured relati... Read all
Once you start recognizing the signs of ADHD, you begin analyzing everything, and your mind gets used to all the "what-ifs" and "so-whats." The result is that even moments of solitude and efforts to not think about anything end up being filled with intense overthinking, analyzing the most trivial th... Read all