Sunday, 22 January 2012

The Queen of the Butterflies

“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.” – Salvador Dali


According to Wikipedia Salvador Dalí produced over 1,500 paintings in his career,in addition to producing illustrations for books, lithographs, designs for theater sets and costumes, a great number of drawings, dozens of sculptures, and various other projects, including an animated short film for Disney.


I have always loved Dali, and this one is the art work I feel is describing me, The Queen of the Butterflies!

Friday, 30 December 2011

Happy Everything!

Well! Happy 2012! and Happy Dragon Year! The symbol of Success & Money!

Let's get rid of that bastard rabbit and start a new life with a fresh vision.


My resolution is " To Start Studying for PhD.", thus you will read in this same blog when I start and any other cool things about the very best university where I am going to.

I've had my chance to be accepted in several well-known universities to study, and I eagerly take this opportunity and will start very soon!

So, this blog will be broadcast from another corner of the world undoubtedly!

Happy New Year!
Happy Dragon Life!
Happy Success!
Happy Life!

Sunday, 13 November 2011

Music & Life

This is now the only thing I share my limited free time with:
Songs of the Wolves, by King Raam

Feel like something new has arrived ...

Thursday, 20 October 2011

The Mountaineer of Life


Life is choice-making game with options that you are forced to consider and then these choices are going to form your personality and character. Most of the time, it is not a fair game, but just a game that you can win or loose. For me, it is the game I have to win. Complaining about the fairness of LIFE, methinks, just keeps people away from the actual “playground”. It has never been fair to anyone and it is not going to be like that to you either. Luck comes and goes all the time, thus do not expect it to be always in your service or act upon your favor.

We are addicted to seek for happiness and never look around us to find it. We choose a point, go for it, and focus on that as a guarantee for our fortune; however, it turns upside down when we reach that very special point and after we experience the very special experience we always wanted.  We feel like we need to go for another thing or we just forget and then we loose something and have to go for something else. So, according to my experiences, it is always the same circle with various start points that makes a tornado swallowing us called LIFE. But, again according to my same experiences, there is nothing wrong with it, unless we are aware that nothing and I mean it, is permanent. We must let go what we obtain, no matter easy or hard, so then we can think of new peaks to be explored. We are supposed to be mountaineers, and no mountaineer sticks to a special peak, not even the most beautiful nor the highest one.

Friday, 14 October 2011

Neyshabur, the Land of Turquoise


Neyshabur on the Silk Road and at the foot of Binalud Mountain is the city that I really like and feel close to although I do not consider it my hometown; actually I feel like I have no strong feelings to anywhere so that I can call it Home! My parents are originally from this city and also are two great Persian poets, Khayyám and Attar, and many other cultural celebrities.

Attar Tomb
Khayyam Tomb

Monday, 10 October 2011

Stay on the Road


I do not have time even to think about what I want to write. I feel so tired but I know I have to write 4 more posts in order to be able to stick to my own schedule. It is a hard task to do, but I feel it is vital to make myself organized and more independent. Sometimes it seems like I torture myself for not being great, then I think that I am great!

Luxembourg
© Rana's Life Journey 
Maybe I just want to keep myself on the road; the way of improvement & empowerment. This is the route I want to walk in forever. I really do not like to find myself sitting in a couch and watching TV! I really hate this image. Moreover, I want to see myself discovering & building up the world around just as I have done so far and try to do now.

I won’t let myself to stop or be stopped, never ever.

It is not just about doing things but also to let others do what they are supposed to. I just received a “Thank You” call from a friend for whom I managed a presentation about his cycling around the world and this presentation turned to a fundraising event. Well, this is the kind of life I am talking about; to keep myself on the road and to help others to get on the road.

Thursday, 6 October 2011

Me & Myself!


This busy life that I live these days and how I miss writing, traveling, exercising and devote myself to educating young people all around this country are what I think about at nights. Different cities, various cultures & attitudes and different aspects of me!

It makes me so excited to see that how much it is easy for me to predict myself even though I am so tired, exhausted, or sleepy! I can see myself from outside and this is what I call Self-Investigation!

I am dominant over me by which I do not mean that I have more control over me, but I can see the panorama made by me. I am so aware of my thoughts and feelings when I am totally in the middle of thinking or feeling and I have found this very cool!

I am able to come out from my body without turning into a ghost!

Sunday, 2 October 2011

Living Life and Prediction


Life is what it is! Prediction is one of the worthless activities that one may want to rely on. We try our best to organize everything related to our studies, jobs, and relationships, but then, in just a blink, everything changes for something we have never thought about.

Sometimes we try so hard to do something, and make ourselves anxious about the things that we have no control of. Then, suddenly with no effort from our side and just in a specific time everything changes in an unpredictable way. Well, I have to admit that I have lots of experiences of this kind of incidents.

But does it mean that we should leave everything as it is and just wait for things to happen? I don’t believe so.
We want things, and we want them badly. So we must try to get them and to reach the point we want to. But we should understand that anxiety and nervousness do not help at all. Sometimes we win, sometimes we fail, but the matter is how hard we have tried and how much we have been able to enjoy our time.


Monday, 26 September 2011

The Question of Cheap Traveling


There are hundred thousands weblogs and websites that publish guidance and advises on cheap or low-cost traveling, how to spend less money while traveling, or how to minimize a trip’s cost. Well, my idea is that all are as useless as, for example, all those books, conferences, articles, and speeches about 20 ways to success, or 45 sentences that change your life, or even worth, how to learn Portuguese in 30 days. To me, it can be only appealing to a public escaping form reality. The reality is that Traveling needs money and this is YOUR LIFE STYLE and YOUR LIFE PHILOSOPHY that may make it cheap.

Barcelona, Spain
© Rana's Life Journey 
Most posts, ask you to be realistic, save a special amount of money each month, and then do research before your trip to find best options of transportation, accommodation, and food; all seem rational so far. Then most of the time, a huge part of suggestions are about accommodation options. Advisers name a long list of websites that offer cheap hostels or apartments or other kind of SERVICES, as they call it.

I have seen a bunch of post that suggests Couch Surfing, for example, as a cheap tool to make cheap traveling possible. I believe those who write them are not real members of the network at all. As a CSer (Some one who uses Couchsurfing), this is a kind of offensive to me. I am not going to deny that it lessens my travels’ costs, but I do not use it for the sake of money saving. These are NETWORKS for EXCHANGE and not WEBSITES to offer SERVICES.