Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Julio Velasco and Iran's Voleyball ( Written in Persian)

دو سال پیش من تو ایتالیا تو یه کنفرانس کار آفرینی بودم که رئیس جمهور ایتالیا و آندریا آغاسی و کلی‌ آدم دیگه بودن. 
شروع همایش که اونجا ( مث ایران ) با پخش یه کلیپ کوتاه از رییس‌جمهور یا نخست وزیر اون کشور هست، به جاش با یک ویدئو ۱ دقیقه ای از ولاسکو شروع شد. 

اینو به عنوان یه مثل گفتم که نشون بدم چقدر ولاسکو رو میپرستن اونجا. و نه فقط به عنوان یه مربی‌ والی بال بلکه به عنوان یه موتیویشنال اسپیکر، یه کنسالتنت واقعی‌.

هیچ کس نمیتونه منکر زحمات ۲۵ ساله تو والیبال ایران بشه 

از رئیس فدراسیون، تا استواری ارکان فدراسیون ، تا مربیهای گمنام وظیفه شناس تا نسلی که درست تربیت شده. 

ولی‌ نکته ای که بیشتر از همه منو عشق این تیم کرده، اینه که شکست رو نمی‌پذیرن. تسلیم نمی‌شن. تن به قضا و قدر نمیدن. 

شروع به فکر کردن به بهانه ها نمی‌کنن وقتی‌ که در حال شکستن، بلکه تا لحظه آخر میجنگن. 

یک ‌ست ۲۴-۱۶ عقب بودن، یک تیم معمولی‌ ایرانی‌ میبازه خودشو، ولی‌ اونا تا ۲۵-۲۲ جنگیدن! درسته که باخت اون ‌ست رو ولی‌ بازی‌ رو بردن و قلب مردم رو هم. 

اینکه چیزها رو به تقدیر نسپردن و مبارزه کردن مهمترین ویژگی این تیمه از نظر من و این رو کاملا به ولاسکو مدیونن! همونطور که همین رو تو بازی‌ آخر با آمریکا ولاسکو توی تیم آرژانتین هم نشون داد. 

دوسش دارم عجیب این پیرمرد نازنین ولی‌ جدی رو!



Friday, January 3, 2014

Idealistic?!

Once I was thinking I am gonna change the world.
Gradually, I am losing that sense. (Clicheeeee)
Small things are naking me happy. Was not this the case before.
I make an example. Right now, here in Manhattan,NY the temperature is like -20 degrees. I saw this homeless guy outside.on a sign in front of him, it was written "hungry"
It just clinged my heart. A year ago, I would not give a shit.
Now it is an hour that I am searching around for him with a sandwich and Bottle of water. I just do not find him.
From one side, I feel bad that he is outside freezing and hungry. At the sametime, I am thinking that if I would have put this time and some dollars that I spent, I could have helped more people in Africa or in Ghaza.
What is different in me is that now I think of changing what I can ( in this case helping person right besides me ) instead of idealizing what else I can do .
I am not sure if it is moving in the right direction or no. Does it mean that I m getting more realistic and less idealistic?
are they in contradiction to each other?
Should I be happy or sad about it? Who knows?!!! ( as said in Italian "chi sa?" )

Friday, November 1, 2013

What is right? what is wrong?

I was reading about this Guy :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Amir-Entezam
He is Persian. He was the deputy prime minister of Ira n right after 1979 revolution.
He was wrongly accused of being American spy by young radical revolutionaries. Once accused, he was the ambassador in Sweden. Even though recommended not to return to Iran, he went back to defend himself as he believed he is innocent.
He was condemned to life-time in prison. After few years in prison, he was offered to be freed in return of official confession of being guilty. His friends proposed him to accept it and announce guilty to be freed (and then refuse it once out ) but he rejected this proposal.
however, he spent around 30 years in jail before being realsed even though he was super innocent.

Now, my question is that, was he right to stand on his own beliefs and spending 30 years in jail?
or did he just wasted 30 years of his life?
would n't he be mentally destroyed if once confessed of being guilty?
or, would n;t he be more useful for himself ,his society and democracy in his society if he would confess and then he was out to spread the right word?

how much should we pay for our beliefs?!!! what if one day we realize they are wrong?!
It is hard to say....

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Halloween

I have never understood Halloween.
I do not like it when people have covered themselves with masks and costumes and pretend to be something that they are not!!!
I think it usually represents people who think of themselves as underachievers or something. And would like to cover it with their heroes, ideals and /or fantasies.
BTW, the other thing which makes me not liking Halloween is its marketing by liberal market in which to make it more cool, they make it more sexual every year.
this video is regarding that ( John Stewart is explaining the problem better than me :)
http://m.comedycentral.com/tds_video.rbml?id=sexy-halloween-costumes&nbck=999-001-001

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

First post

Life is too short!!! enjoy it!!! you do not need to be a CEO , then to get rid of everything!!!
being rich and enjoy it is not special!! having nothing and still being happy is the real deal!!