SHUT THE F*#@K UP!!!
I cannot stand those who gossip behind someone’s back and kiss up to that same person when in their presence. I never understood this. Why do people gossip? What satisfaction do they get from this? The only LOGICAL reason I could think of was low self-steam and mental illness.
I mean, seriously, how boring must your life be that you have nothing else to do but to talk about other’s back? And if you get any kind of satisfaction
through spreading lies about another, well then you are mentally ill in my book.
I read somewhere that “as a listener, you are a co-narrator to the gossip. In other words, the act of active listening actually supports and promotes gossiping. The more you listen, the more you encourage it. If you don’t listen, the gossip has nowhere to go.”
But how can you not listen? Especially when the gossiping takes place at work? Sometimes I just want to go up to the gossiper and say to them “please don’t speak behind other people in my presence”. But I have yet to get the courage to do this.
Someday soon I will. This I have promised myself and till then I will consider myself a winner by not plying the game and contributing to the madness.
You’ll always win when you are not playing the game; The gossip game that is.
I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE
THE KEY IS THE PEOPLE - By Jean-Benoit Levy
I believe in a thing called love; Love for a place I once called home but merely a strange land today
I believe in the good of humanity & its strength & perseverance to overcome
I believe my small efforts can help change the world
I believe that in my lifetime I will once again see the Iran I once knew as a place called ‘home’
I believe you and I share the same love
I believe in the hope held secret in the heart
I believe in solutions beyond words
I believe in you & me
I believe in freedom, democracy & human rights
On October 15, 2011 I along with friends will run a half marathon to support freedom and democracy in Iran. We are hoping to raise $1000 & all proceeds will go to United4Iran.org.
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“If one country sincerely wants to support democracy in another country that is under dictatorial rule, the only thing to do is to support the freedom fighters who stand for the democratic institutions of that country. Done this way, the sapling of democracy will bear the flower of freedom.”
– Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights activist & Nobel Peace Prize winner
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The complicated, multifaceted on-and-off-again relationship with myself
“I need something else in life” is the latest thought circulating my head. Something is missing and I can’t quite put my finger on it. To be quite honest, I feel… no wait, I don’t feel… I actually know the life I am living right now is not the one that was meant for me.
Who I am does not match the life I am living. And with the discovery of each gray hair and the arrival of the crow’s feet, I can’t help but to question this match more and more.
It needs to be done away with, this mismatch. My life has never felt out of synch from me. But I guess there is a first time for everything, ha? I am just bored with people, bored with myself.
In the past two years I concentrated so hard on my work and establishing capital (making up for lost times) that in the midst of it all I lost myself.
I lost the girl, who’s not house-proud; uses her oven for storage; is open-minded; looking for love but also has fun in the process; will never settle for nothing less than exceptional and the girl who experiences moments of happiness in both her independence and loneliness.
At times I wish I was more like the “normal” person who appears to be so effortlessly satisfied and happy with the routine of everyday life. Sometimes I wish I could just accept what is, and maybe, just maybe, in that I would find the happiness I seem to be forever chasing. But I know that’s not what happiness is for me.
I always seem to be in some sort of complicated, multifaceted on-and-off-again kind of relationship with myself.