PersEternity

There are four people named, EVERYBODY, SOMEBODY, ANYBODY and NOBODY. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it, Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done!

Recently, I have been having a series of discussions with one of my friends (Parinaz Salari) about the philosophy of life. Those discussions made me to find these great words. This one is just great. I hope you enjoy it:

I don't know where the time has gone,
Suddenly here we are alone,Only a word before you go,everyone's waiting;
So many friends to say goodbye, so many tears they'll have to cry,
So many wings to help you fly where you are going;

And now a plane must take away my child that life has found,
And you will be up in the sky, and I'll be on the ground,
Sending my love with you tonight;

I will be waiting, I will be waiting, here for you, here for you;

I don't know where the years have gone,
Suddenly here, and you have grown,
It was like only yesterday when you were so young;
But here is the day we had to see, always the same eternally,
This is the way that it must be, now it is your world;

And so a plane must take away my child that time has found,
And you will be up in the sky, and I'll be on the ground,
Sending my dreams with you tonight

I will be waiting.....I'm trying not to show,
But seeing you go, is the hardest thing that I have known;

I will be waiting, don't worry 'bout me, I'll be alright,
I will be waiting, don't worry 'bout me, I'll be alright,
Here for you, here for you

I don't know where the years have gone.....

Tonight will be the start point of the new Persian year and its festival called "Nowrooz". If you have no idea about what I am saying here; you may click here for a comprehensive definition about Nowrooz and its history.

Again it is spring and I just became familiar with another tradition of Persians. I think the photo is adequate to convey my words. It is some thing that you are not able to find in the western cultures. They refresh the memories of their loved sons even if those sons have no names. The nameless men and women who lost their lives in an eight year Iraqi imposed war. Thanks a lot to Iranian Students News Agency photographer by taking such picture.

As long as I remember, I have been having Dr Mostafa Chamran as one of my role models. He has taught me how I can follow my own path regardless of my social, cultural and educational situation. He is a man that left behind all what he had for what he loved. God bless him and all Chamrans. In the rest is a brief biography of Dr Chamran from IRIB :

Chamran was born in 1932 in Tehran. At 15, he began his activities with Islamic associations, participating in classes of commentary on the Quran by Late Ayatollah Taleghani and those of logic and philosophy by Martyr Professor Motahhari.

Enjoying a government scholarship for talented students, he went to the United States for a period of 14 years and earned his master's degree from the University of Texas. He then went on to get his PhD in electronics and plasma physics with excellent grades from the University of California at Berkeley. He entered research on satellites and powerful radars with Bell Laboratories.

He had complete mastery over English and Arabic and also knew French and German. His most important political activities abroad were organizing and training guerrilla and revolutionary forces in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.

Chamran participated in guerrilla activities in liberation wars against Israel and the Phalanges. For eight years he assumed responsibility for managing the Technical School of Jabal-Amel in southern Lebanon.

At the time of the victory of the Islamic Revolution under the leadership of Imam Khomeini, Chamran returned to Iran. Initially, he became commander of the government division of the Revolutionary Guards. He was deputy prime minister for revolutionary affairs and was later appointed minister of defense.

Dr. Chamran participated actively in the Kurdistan wars and commanded the rescue forces of Paveh, Nosood, Marivan, Baneh, and Sardasht. In March, 1980, the people of Tehran elected him representative to the Islamic Consultative Assembly ( Majlis). Late Imam Khomeini selected Chamran as his military adviser and his representative to the Supreme Council of Defense.

At the time of the Iraqi invasion he went to Ahvaz, bravely fighting and never left the front. Chamran wrote many articles on political, tactical and ideological topics. Most of them were published without any author listed. In his own opinion, his ideological and intellectual activities were more important than his scientific, political or guerrilla activities.

Dr. Mostafa Chamran, the researcher, scientist, crusader and challenging guerrilla achieved martyrdom during the Iraqi-imposed war on Sunday, June 21, 1981 by a bomb splinter in the village of Dehlaviyeh.

More than two years ago the historical city of Bam which is located in Kerman Province was collapsed by a devastating earthquake. Although the reconstruction and settlement process has started but there is still .... Yes, we can not replace the lost fathers and mothers of these orphans. It is merely sad and .... But there is still laughter and hope for the coming future.

Currently I am so anxious about my own life as I see it tied to the policies of the Iranian government at the current stage of my life and ambitions. Now, the Iranian disputed nuclear program is going to be further discussed at the UN Security Council in New York along with the IAEA. What is going to happen? Here is what I quote from some news and analysis:

Oooooh!! Hey this is my dog, Mr Sleeeep!! He's always sleeping at the door. Do you like it? Isn't he cute? Dogs seem to be better friends in compare with some sort of people. What do you think about it?