Dear Life

Monday, May 30, 2005

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dear life,
my mom and dad will be back home tonight after such a long time. i am so happy of seeing them, but then i am thinking of him and how much he, and i myself, are missing his dad. there is no more hugging and teasing each other in this world. what keep us happy meanwhile are the memories of him and our life together to cherish forever and ever. what makes us happy is our ability to have him with us in our hearts, to hug him and to kiss him whenever we want, wherever we want in the world we behold in our hearts.

Thursday, May 26, 2005

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dear life,
it is amazing how we all the time change our view toward you and what you offer us. this morning when i had a tour of Tehran with a great knowledgeable tour guide, i loved having you in this great city and felt honored of its past. now here i am, ten hours later, in the traffic jam of a weekend night and rethinking my previous feelings. people are going nuts, swerving not to let each other pass, cursing, putting on a show that you do not want to be watching at all. how can you change faces so easily and how can one find out where she is standing in her relation to you?

Sunday, May 22, 2005

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dear life,
despite all the hard times you have put me through during the past years, i now feel grateful to you. it is because of all those hardships and the people you encountered me with all along that i learned to look into your eyes and see new things and to choose to have a new view toward you and your behaviors. it is because of all your offerings that i am now trying to take a new path through you and to live you in a different manner, to the fullest. i am thankful to you because today i can enjoy a beautiful flower, breathe in the fresh air of spring with all my heart, and to see in me strenghts i was never aware of. thank you for everything.

Friday, May 20, 2005

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Dear life,
I love you for all the things you are, despite all the things you are. I love you despite you getting from me my loved ones, I love you despite putting me in situations I didn’t think I could endure, despite introducing me to dark corners of peoples’ personalities, I love you despite all the hardship you have put me through, despite all the misery and sadness in the world that you face me with everyday. I love you for the strenght you offered me through all this, for opening my eyes to aspects of you i was incapable of seeing before, for introducing to me qualities in me I was so far unaware of, for giving me the ability to see the good in people, I love you for helping me find joy in all the little things, for helping me find new meanings to you, and for all the lessons you saw me worthy of learning, even the hard way. I love you for who you are and what you do, for whatever you offer me, cause I have come to understand that you have a reason for each and every one of them, a reason that sometimes is yet to unfold. Thank you for your love and friendship.

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

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dear life,
Someone once said that the paths to reach God are as many as the people of the world. Last Wednesday, on the roof of a four-storey building, surrounded by night lights of Tehran, and with the sound of cars as the background music, i understood that the paths to feel and express love, too, are as many as the people of the world. That night i witnessed a special kind of love between two special people. this note is more for those two who love so beautifully. what is more to life than love, really?