Entry 58

One of the subjects I've always loved to study & know about has been psychology ...
When I was a teenager, I started reading these kinds of books ; I used to read one psychological book after each novel ...
I really enjoyed reading them and gradually began to know myself better and try to make myself and overcome my problems, and I can say that I was really successful in this way ...
I think one can and must know themselves and must try to face their disabilities, shortcomings and problems ,and they should try to overcome them and here psychology really helps !
Of course the problems of people do not just exist inside them ; sometimes they exist outside them ... here psychology cannot directly change the situation outside a person, but it can help people find a way to face and overcome the problem and when one changes from inside, the situation outside her changes for sure ...
I truly believe in psychotherapy, and that is what a psychologist does ...
What he/she does is somehow different from what a psychiatrist does ...
As far as I know, the former talks with the patients and tries to calm them down in this way, but the latter treats people medically ,i.e., they use medications and drugs ...
Of course consulting with a psychologist is better,for using lots of tranquillizers has side effects, but they ARE effective when there's no other way to calm down the person ...
It's the same as the time when we use aspirins when we have a headache: using them is as harmful as using tranquillizers, but when we can't overcome it, we have no other choice !

Entry 57

The presidency of Khatami ...



I think during these 8 years he has done his best ...
His name & his deeds will remain both in Iran and abroad forever ...
He did whatever he could to reform the cultural, political, economical , social and artistic situation in Iran ...
He is the symbol of purity, honesty , patience, love & respect ...
He presented a picture from Iran which made every Iranian proud everywhere ...
And now his presidency has been over ...
I still love him as I did 8 years ago; I'll love him & I'll be proud of him forever

Entry 56

" Africa: Who is to blame ? "
This is what we see these days on TV channels ...
The G8 countries actually didn't do anything ...
They even didn't pay attention to the beautiful live concerts which were held in these 8 countries in protest against the inattention of the world to what is happening in Africa ...
Except a few charities nobody cares about them ...
Everyday millions of people containing poor little children die because of hunger and the governments are just discussing whether they should forgive & ignore their debt or not !
Who is truly to blame ? I
think every single capitalist is to blame ...
The other day , while having a look at the newpaper I noticed something about Nicole Kidman : she earns between 17 to 20 million dollars from each film she acts in !

Entry 55

Terrorism is always condemned everywhere & for everyone in the world, esp. for the innocent people as the ones in London ...
What happened in London made me really sad & depressed ...
Unfortunately they are always the innocent people who become the victims of the ruler's wills ...
As we see the government of most of the countries in the world have expressed their deepest sympathies & have condemned this event ...
Just one question has arisen in my mind which doesn't keep me calm:
" Has the world ever reacted against and sympathized with the innocent people who die EVERY DAY in an explosion in IRAQ ? "

Entry 54

The day before the election is not a good day ... I mean it's depressing ... at least for me ...because I'm not sure if the candidate I support will win the election or not, esp. this year in which there are lots of people who don't support reformation as they used to do 4 years ago by voting Khatami ...
They seem to think that reformation in this way has no result; therefore, they are not going to vote the reformist candidate ...
I don't know what will happen ...
I'm just waiting and praying ...

Entry 53

"THIS " is what is called " Democracy " :
" NON " to the European Union Constitution in France ...
"THIS" is " PEOPLE'S " victory ...

Entry 52

Last week one of my colleagues who had read my previous entry on travelling showed me some quotations in a small dictionary named : "Mariam Webster's of Quotations" ...
I read them & found them reallyyy interesting ...
I thank him and write them for my readers :
--- The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking. __ GEORGE ADE, Forty Modern Fables
--- Traveling is the ruin of all happiness . There's no looking at a building here, after seeing Italy. __ FANNY BURNEY, Cecilia
--- Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. __ LAWRENCE DURRELL, Bitter Lemons
--- A man who has not been in Italy is always consious of an inferiority. __ SAMUEL JOHNSON
--- Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything . __ CHARLES KURALT, On the Road
--- Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new unchartedseas. __ ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, North to the Orient
--- A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. __ GEORGR MOORE, The Brook Kerith
--- For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Travels with a Donkey cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. __ ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, "Ulysses"
--- Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. __ PAUL THEROUX, quoted in The Observer
--- Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadebibg at first, contracts the mind. __ PAUL THEROUX, The Great Railway Bazaar

Entry 51

My brother & I were listening to a piece of music song by A-HA band ...
It was excellent & reminded us of the good times we had in Europe 2 years ago ...
My brother said, " It's summer again ... I remember the good days we had ... I wish we were there ..."
We really enjoyed ourselves when we were there and I can say that one of the best times I've had in my life has been my travels in Europe and the US with my family ...
In my next entries I'll write about them with more details ...
But what I as well as my brother agreed on was that we enjoyed ourselves a lot only because WE HAD GONE ON A TRIP ! Only because WE HAD TO COME BACK SOME TIME SOON and leave those places, and also because it has always been difficult to travel ( because of problems in getting visa , high expenses, ...)
The enjoyment that a tourist has can never be compared with that of an inhabitant living there all her life ...

Entry 50

I really love reading, from the time I was a kid , I enjoyed reading ...I remember the day when we went to " SHEMSHAK " on a picnic with my aunt and her children who were my age ...While everyone was barbecuing and having fun , I was sitting on a big stone and reading a story eagerly ...Years ago I read more than now ...Looking at my bookcase nowadays, I become badly depressed ...I'd like to take the books one by one and read them, but I can't ... just because I'm so busy... esp. from the time I've started working ...I HAVE time, but not as much as I had before... Sometimes I think it's not just MY fault; these days there are many things to read: books, magazines , newspapers ... & they can be found on paper, on sites ... Internet has doubled them ...I think at this period whatever one can read , they are still behind ... & this is one way of looking at this matter , i.e. being pessimistic ...But I've decided to be optimistic by spending at least 30 minutes everyday on reading ...

Entry 49

Watching Pope's funeral ceremony, my father said, " I'm glad that great men and men of God are still respected around this world in which there is cruelty every where ..."
I, myself, enjoyed people's emotions as well as religious songs , but I think the ceremonies and formalities were too much ...