I am a citizen of this planet, who believes there is a purpose and mission to our existence. I pursue that mission and try to enjoy every lesson, every day, and every last drop of the pain and joy we drink when we live. I live a mostly regret-free life, with each failure quickly becoming a valuable experience and something to laugh about, and every success something about which to be thankful and celebrative. I do all of this in and around my beloved Berkeley, California.
7/19/2007
Togetherness
I was gone a few days and it felt longer. I was only a couple of hundred miles away and it felt farther. I was in the throes of love for those I can't have near, where all I could do was to taste, watch, touch, see, and feel the moments and spaces. Moments and spaces of the fleeting and fragile togetherness which feels so natural to do and yet so forbidding in complexity. Part of me wants to be grateful for the opportunity which has only presented itself three times since 1974 for all of us to be together in the same place at the same time; and part of me wants to scream at the unfairness of it all when we will soon separate again. I look for solace in Sohrab Sepehri's poem, trying to enjoy here and now, while it lasts. Life is to repeatedly get wet,
Life is to swim in the pool of "now."
عالی نوشتی نازی جون.عالی
ReplyDeleteThanks Mana!
ReplyDeleteI will repeat the first comment and translate to English, because it is true: "You wrote wonderfully, Nazy Joon, wonderful"!
ReplyDeleteI agree. I could read your emotions in every line! I hope the fourth get-together comes earlier this time for you and your beautiful family.
Thank you Assal Jan. I hope so, too.
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ReplyDeleteThank you sweet Serendip!
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