Life's like an electrocardiogram !

In everyone's life there are difficult times that unless you live them you can't perceive their depth. On the other hand, there are times that moments are in your favor and it's like you're on cloud nine; everything is in the way that's enjoyable and you can say it's the down-slope of one's life. 
I'm sure we all go through the above in different ways. What's grabbing my attention lately is the way we put these happenings together and understand them as a whole. 
I believe the above ideology resembles an electrocardiogram where high picks are like the tough times and low points are the down-slopes of our lives. As long as there are tough and easy times in our lives, we are alive and breathing. 
'A straight line represents death' !!!
I think sometimes we forget to see what we have rather than don't have. It would be a good habit to write them down on a piece of paper and look at them every now and then. 
It's ironic that things which many people don't think of in this way are so priceless and can be truly considered one's life-time wealth. Examples would be one's health, the fact that one can laugh at a joke whenever he wants, that fact that one can remember a beautiful moment in life and genuinely feel content, the fact that one can speak, see, hear, smell and touch. These are one's most basic possessions in life but the absence of which can be immensely hard to live with. 
- It's always pleasing to rest after a day of hard work. Resting after a day of resting will always be more tiring. 
I believe, we should start thinking a bit differently about our live's moments and enjoy every second, be it a good one or not. 

Cheers!
Iman Ghavam

Think vs. Observe

         

   I arrived at the following conclusion yesterday:

"Great people are those who see the unseen; greater people are those who show other people the unseen and bring them to them".

            I have been pondering over the above for a couple of months and it became vivid to me when Nima (my very best friend) and I were getting back home last evening from a meeting with Prof. Mohammed Minhaj, also my good friend and consultant.

On the way, Nima told me, "we don't think enough!" and I told him "we don't observe enough either!".

Although they seem to be two different things, they are quite similar in many ways. Observation requires one to get immersed in the surroundings and not isolate themselves from them. On the other hand, thinking is a process that takes place in brain with an input fed by observation in order to arrive at a conclusion which in a way is an isolated process.

Coming back to earth and leaving the philosophy off for a while, I can say, at the end of the day, it's these two things that have helped and led human being to the top of the pyramid and superior among other species.

If you notice, every thing that has created a buzz and attraction, is new in some way! We love new stuff, new things to wear, new places to see, new foods to eat, and new things to experience. The problem is, we need to look for them! They are either hard to find or hard to get. Even if they're found, they are expensive to buy or access.

It is easy to get or create new things but hard at the same time! It's like the famous saying: "Simple is hard"; If you want to explain something to someone in a simple way so they understand it better, you should know it very well which in turn requires you to spend time and energy to learn it.

New ideas, new ways of doing things, new approaches and methods, have something in common to find out: observe the surroundings, think about your observations, connect your thoughts back to your observations and you'll arrive at the bigger picture of what you have observed. With the bigger picture, you can easily see a whole new, different world of the same objects you have previously observed.

A step further to the above is bringing your observations to other people and helping them see the different world.

Iman Ghavam