Monday, June 23, 2008

به مهدی

What follows is a response -but not an answer- to the post "خواستم بنویسم" from my great friend, Mahdi:

How many times have we decided to write and we have stopped ourselves? How many sentences have we left incomplete? How many pages should we write of this pain? Is there any of us who has never felt it? This pain is closer to us than ourselves.
and life goes on...
and you know my friend;
It is not a feeling of nationalism. It is broader than that.
It is the pain of understanding.
A pain I embrace wholeheartedly...

"Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
Khalil Gibran

"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
William Faulkner





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