Sunday, May 20, 2007

What color is the sky?


Just two or three days before leaving Iran, I and one of my friends were talking about my new life. We were wondering if there is a big difference between here and the rest of the world. “Maybe this planet is much smaller than what we presume”. Looking at the sky, my friend asked me a question that I never forgot. She told me:” Go and see if the sky is the same color as here?”

At the first day of my arrival, I looked up to see the sky. It was the same. I was thinking…I am too far from home and too near.

Some days later I was describing this experience to another friend. I told him: “you know the sky in Canada has the same color as that of Iran. The world is too small and the sky is always blue.” This time he told me something that stuck in my mind…” have you ever noticed that the sky’s color is changing in every moment? Never is it stable.”

And it was true. I looked at the sky differently and I saw it. The color may seem stable but in reality it changes quickly and you can see many different shades in it.

THE SKY COLOR IS THE SAME AND IT IS NOT THE SAME.

It depends on you. What you decide to see.

And we as mankind,

Our souls are the same. It is the absolute beauty and what make us different are our deeds and our behavior. There is not any bad or good person in the world. Our deeds, like life and death, will come and go. And we are here as absolute as ever.

The sky is always similar and always different. It depends on us. What we decide to see.

Roya and Saeed ,Thanks, you helped me to feel the reality once again, though for a short moment.