Life

"Adiemus - Devdas"

To be called Friend may be earned with ease, but it shall never be taken lightely!
Nothing else you may remember
(from a letter to M, thanks)

Jack and Meg show me my path to the red rain, to my martyr for my love, to the oneness the deep understanding of each other, even your enemies will understand you.
Thanks Persia and White Stripes, for the joy for life!

White Stripes, I will not abuse my love, I will be able to reach Hadad, thus love.
The red rain may be my guidance.
One world many bodies!
Culture till certainty
Death
The ultimate love proof.


The place when I am complete, the place you have followed and guided me all along, no matter how stormy the conditions and how far the distances were.
We guided each other, to the final certanty, the certanty with which we are ready to let go!

I have rediscovered my full appreciation for Persia, even for a person who my psyche didn't like, unjustified.
But now I understand, that he may be a person worth it, if he is a person living by the words of his cultural fathers, like Sa'di.

Thus here are some works of art:

Wikipedia - on love in persian culture:

Even after all this time

The sun never says to the earth "you owe me".

Look what happens with a Love like that!

- It lights the whole Sky. (Hafiz)

Rumi, Hafez and Sa'di are icons of the passion and love that the Persian culture and language present. The Persian word for love is eshgh, deriving from the Arabic ishq. In the Persian culture, everything is encompassed by love and all is for love, starting from loving friends and family, husbands and wives, and eventually reaching the divine love that is the ultimate goal in life. Over seven centuries ago, Sa'di wrote:

The children of Adam are limbs of each other

Having been created of one essence.

When the calamity of time afflicts one limb

The other limbs cannot remain at rest.

If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others

You are not worthy to be called by the name of "man".

Another famous poem by Sa'di focuses on the oneness of mankind, and is used to grace the entrance to the Hall of Nations of the UN building in New York with this call for breaking all barriers: ^[1][2]

بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
که در آفرينش ز یک گوهرند



چو عضوى به درد آورد روزگار
دگر عضوها را نماند قرار



تو کز محنت دیگران بی غمی
نشاید که نامت نهند آدمی















Human beings are members of a whole,


In creation of one essence and soul.



If one member is afflicted with pain,


Other members uneasy will remain.



If you have no sympathy for human pain,


The name of human you cannot retain.

Love in Persian is the word Eshgh. In the Persian culture, everything is encompassed by love and all is for love, but for starters we practice loving our friends and family, then our husbands and wives, our country and culture, and eventually the ultimate love of divine love which is the ultimate goal in life.

"Red Rain"
by the White Stripes




The White Stripes - A Martyr For My Love For You @ Bonnaroo
-lyrics-

She was sixteen and six feet tall
In a crowd of teenagers comin' out of the zoo
She stumbled started to slip and fall
Teeter-tottered on the top of patent leather shoes
I happened to catch her and said,
"maybe these ruby shoes are a little cumbersome for you"

Maybe for you, now

But not as shaky as I must have seemed
Talkin' junk through her giggle, little teenage dream
And on the phone I could not compete
My dumb-love fake competence was getting weak
For a sec' I thought I sounded sweet
But sure 'nough in a gruff, faint voice
I heard myself speak

[Chorus:]
I could stay a while
But sooner or later I'll break your smile
And I can tell a joke
But one of these days I'm bound to choke
And we could share a kiss
But I feel like I can't go through with this
And I bet we could build a home
But I know the right thing for me to do
Is to leave you alone

Leave you alone, now

I'm beginning to like you
So you probably won't get what I'm going to do
I'm walkin' away from you
It probably don't make much sense to you
But I'm trying to save you
From all of the things that I'll probably say or do

I'll probably do

[Chorus:]
I could stay a while
But sooner or later I'll break your smile
And I can tell a joke
But one of these days I'm bound to choke
And we might share a kiss
But I feel like a can't go through with this
And I bet we could build a home
But I know the right thing for me to do
Is to leave you alone

Leave you alone, now

You'll probably call me a fool
And say I'm doin' exactly what a coward would do
And I'm beginning to like you
What a shame it's a lame way to live
But what can I do?
I hope you appreciate what I do

I'm a martyr for my love for you
A martyr for my love for you, now
A martyr for my love for you
A martyr for my love for you