No time to stand ... no time to stare ... no time to think for a while, or just letting the mind be free, letting the thoughts fly high and far...

Life is going so fast ... do not you hear that? No time to pause or you will be out of the game. Which game by the way? ...
The game that we have trapped ourselves in and called it "daily" life ...or other fancy names such as successful life, being financially smart, job promotions, job projects, job requirements, paying off high interest loans, applying for lower interest mortgages, looking for stock market trends, working on an overseas project ...

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"The wheel of the coach is waiting for the horse to stop, the horse is waiting for the man in the coach to sleep ... The man in the coach is waiting for death ..."
[Sohrab Sepehri, Late Contemporary Iranian poet and painter]

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"...He parked his cab about 100 meters away from the railroad, he was just living nearby, if you can call it "living" cause it was just an unfair struggle to be alive ... not very far from the rails ... he had made up his mind, he had already lots of challenges to satisfy himself ... many many voices in his mind ... all he was hearing was the honks of the locomotive approaching so fast towards his eyes ... voices in his mind and ... suddenly the silence ... a strange silence ...

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Police were everywhere, looking for any tiny thing to identify the body smashed terribly on the rails ... there was a cab parked 100 meters away from the railroad ... a note under the snow-blades on the wind shield ...
"I am very tired ... I want to be game over" ...

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Once I saw a wise quote posted on one of the office doors at USC saying that: "Life is a game, you can not quit ... either loser or winner, better to win the game ..."

That is very true not to be able to quit the game ... but the question is ...
which game? why a game ? why defining loser and winner for this game? If so, who is the winner? who loses in this game?

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Life passes so fast ... moments make you run with them ... simply there is no time to stand for a while ... or to stare ...
Simply there is no time to hear the voices who call upon us for help ... no time to extend a helping hand towards the people who need it ...

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Asking for a time to let your mind be free? ... to make your thoughts fly high? ... You must be kidding me !!! ...

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Have we asked ourselves to where we are speeding like this? ...



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[Photo: The City of Tabriz, The largest and the capital city of the beautiful historic industry-rich province of East Azerbaijan, Iran]