MSc or PhD? That's the question!

Hi Dear Mr. Safvati

If you remember, I sent you an email last year and you suggested that I get my ielts degree first.

... I don't know whether the coursework program is better or research for Msc. Both take 1 year of study in UNSW. I just know that a person graduated with ''PhD by Research" can not become ''heyat elmi'' (again I don't know what it's called) . ...

I was wondering if you would mind guiding me in this case and show me the ways I can get scolarships or something to reduce expenses. As I've searched, I think it costs about 16.5 million toman for 1 year Msc by coureswork

Thanks for everything

... I hope you took the academic test. From memory I can tell you that UNSW requirement for IELTS results is IELTS of 6.5 for at least three of the four subjects (reading, writing, listening and speaking). Check it on their website for the most recent updates (if there are any). A friend of mine arrived here with lower results and spent six months here to take an English course. When he finished the English course, his admission was changed from "conditional" to final.
In response to your question about courses: as far as I remember, Msc by coursework is one year, but by research is 2 years. Check that for yourself however to make sure. By the way, if you take the MSc by coursework, it is 3 days per week and some of the classes are over the weekend. That means that you'll be able to work 20 hours per week (if you are not on a full-fee scholarship).

What you asked needs a long answer, so get ready because this is going to be a long email. I spent a long long time, thinking and hesitating about the same ideas you are thinking of right now. I don't want you to loose time on this the way I did.

So, what to do: MSc by coursework, MSc by Research, or PhD? First of all I just want to stress this point (though you know it already), that this is a serious decision and you should not allow anyone (big letters: ANYONE) to make a decision on that for you. That of course includes myself. I'll try to just pass what I know to you, but you always need to double check things that I'm telling you; alright? Although I may occasionally sound like I'm advising things, but I'll be actually only suggesting what I would do if I would be in the situation you are in, but I'm not eaxactly in your situation and I may not know what your exact situation is.

Here is what I think: you are young. You have time. Being an Iranian, the ideal situation is to do MSc first and then PhD. Why? Because when you arrive here and start doing a PhD it is a lot more difficult. You need to learn so many things, all at once, because a lot of those things we should have learnt before starting university. Stuff that they learn here at school, many of us, or at least myself have no real inderstanding of. To give you an example: my daughter (she just turned ten), has learnt to do research on the internet. How many of us are really good at that? She is being trained to write essays. They have their own style of writing which IELTS teaches you a bit of. Things like how to discuss an idea looking at it from different points of view. Questions like "Smart students should study in a separate school? Do you think it is right or wrong?" How would you write your ideas on a subject like this? In a research environment, or even in coursework, you will realise that you need to know these things: How to write an essay their way, how to defend your views their way, how to work with excel spreadsheets and Word and Powerpoint professionally, how to write research proposals, etc. I'm not saying that you can not handle this, no. I'm just trying to say that if you start with MSc, it is definitely easier and apparently more acceptable in Iran. The downside would be that after you finish your MSc, you will need 3-4 years for your PhD, that means time and money that you will have to spend. Again: you are young, you inshallah have the time. For me, it was out of question. I'm nearly 40 years old and my Australian scholarship would only cover a PhD program. I could opt in for MSc, but that would mean that finishing my masters, I would have to look for money to start a PhD program and then spend 2 years for MSc and 3-4 years for PhD.

Now, let's look at this same question from a different point of view: what are the benefits of starting a PhD program (instead of MSc)? First of all: here if you get admission for a PhD program straight from BSC, that means you are smarter (sorry to put it like this - but I was not really thinking about myself - I'm just telling you about the attitude here). Moreover, the sooner you finish your PhD, they consider you even more smart. Just a couple of weeks ago, I told Mr ... (names deleted all over the text for privacy reasons), that I wouldn't mind to drag my research for one more year because in Iran they would look at me with a bit of twist in their eyes if they'll see that I'm finishing my PhD in 3.5 years. He said: "We take pride in the fact that at our school the average time a PhD candidate takes to finish a PhD project is 3.8 years. For the UNSW', he said 'it is slightly more, about 4 years. It will definitely look better on you r CV (curriculum Vitae - Resume) if you will finish your PhD in less than that average, and I don't understand why they think any other way in Iran" - this is what he said. Earlier, about two years ago I asked F.S. (she is a great world-class researcher, just search her name in Google and you'll see) if I could get both MSc and PhD. She was really surprised to hear this question and said: look Aidin, you are already in the second year of your PhD, why should you spend your time on a Masters degree? I told her about Iran. She said: I just don't understand why having admission to PhD straight from BSc, you would spend time on Masters. Finish your PhD and then look into the question of what you want to do for Iran.

My decision (for myself) if I would be doing it all again: I'll finish my PhD and then get onto a postdoctorate course if I can. If I'll not get the chance to do a postdoc, let every idiot call me PhD by Research. It is still regarded as being higher than OD anywhere in the world and anywhere in the world you need to be a PhD if you want to teach optometry. OD is never suffiecient for teaching in academic environments and if you search on the net for academic positions, if you find an advertisement for a permanent academic position, you will see that they always require a PhD degree. I love Iran, you may already know that, but if the Iranian university and ministry of health will not qualify my PhD degree as a doctorate, fine, they'll have to qualify my post-doctorate as doctorate! Besides, as far as I know we don't have that many PhDs and postdocs in optometry there and if I want to be a full time academic staff there, I guess they will be happy to have me. By the way, most probably I will not even ask to be a full time member of academic staff in Iran. I'll be happy to spend time teaching, I'll be happy if they will give me the credit as full time academic, but if they don't, big deal! I'll be anyways making money by other means, and I will not depend on the money they'll give me as an academic or non-academic. You know why? Because I spent nine years teaching optometry in Iran wishing to become a full time academic staff, but working on a salary less than an Iranian primary school teacher. You know who's fault that was? No one else's, JUST MINE! Because I knew the salary and I stayed there out of love for science and hoping that things will get better, though I knew it would not change, unless I would decide to change it. I lost nine years waiting for someone to change it, and it didn't happen. It changed when I realised that I am the person who must change it. And here I am! I'm changing it! I have already changed it (by God's will). Now when I return, if they will play the same game with me, saying that they can not pay me what they should becasue I'm a PhD by Research, and if they are stupid enough not to understand that PhD by Research is EXACTLY the most suitable degree for teaching, ... , hey, that's absolutely fine with me! I've been there in that game before, and I will not wait for anything to change. I'll teach if I love teaching, money and title will not be that much of matter for me, and I will not teach if they will think they can insult me. I'll make my life my own way and will not let anyone to hold me back with stupid ideas.

It may look like I am complaining about what happened to me while I was teaching optometry there. No! I'm just trying to tell you what I learnt when I was there: I learnt not to base my decisions on things like what the ministry will think about my degree. I learnt not to waste my time trying to get wealthy by teaching in the conventional way of teaching. Nobody gets rich by teaching the conventional way, nowhere in the world. If you don't like this idea, you just have to forget teaching, or accept doing it just out of love for science. I learnt one more thing: there are non-conventional ways for teaching! They are more effective, more productive and more fullfilling in every sense. I will teach the conventional way, but I will make money teaching the unconventional way and doing other things that will make life financially tolerable for my family and myself and for those who will need me to be wealthy. I need to be wealthy and I'm not ashamed of saying so, because my being wealthy will do a lot of good to many other people, if I'll do the things I do intend to do, and I'll do them, inshallah, whether I'll be here in Australia, or in Iran or anywhere else in the world.

I wish I could find a shorter way of telling you all this. But, this was the story of a big part of my life, and I hope it will clarify the way to your future life.

To recap: If I were you, I would get my PhD as soon as I can, and then do a postdoctorate course. The total time would be the same as doing MSc and PhD, but will be easier financially and I'll be a Postdoc, you'll be a Doc if you go the other way. By the way, postdocs get payed a salary appropriate for a PhD graduate. Its not huge, but it is better than you paying for MSc + PhD.

Again, I said "if I were you", but I'm not you. You are not me. Think again and do what is best for you and whatever you choose, just stick to it and do it and don't hesitate for too long a time on the decision or after the decision is made.

I wish you all the best from the deep of my heart,

Your colleague,

Aidin

Iranian researchers presenting at Asia ARVO January 2009

What is ARVO?

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
http://www.arvo.org/eweb/startpage.aspx?site=AM2009
http://www.arvo.org/eweb/startpage.aspx?site=arvo2

ARVO is an American research organisation (might be difficult for Iranians to attend their conferences in America)

ASIA ARVO is held each year in ASIA and is a wonderful opportunity for Iranian optometrists who wish to get their research work presented outside Iran.
http://www.asiaarvo2009.org/

This year, there are at least ten researchers from Iran presenting their results at ASIA ARVO in Heydarabad, India, January 2009. Take a look for yourself to see what subjects Iranian research organisations are presently working on.

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  Mohammad Talebnejad, AUGMENTED RECESSION BY INTRAOPERATIVE BOTULINUM TOXIN-A INJECTION IN LARGE ANGLE HORIZONTAL DEVIATION
  
  M. Mirdehghan, STUDY OF OPTIC NERVE NETWORK USING ELECTRO PHYSIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES
  
  S. Basir Hashemi, ASSESSMENT OF FAILURE RATE OF ENDONASAL DACRYOCYSTORHINOSTOMY (DCR) IN KHALILI HOSPITAL OF SHIRAZ
  
  Naser Owji, NORMALIZATION OF CONJUNCTIVAL FLORA AFTER DACRYOCYSTORHINOSTOMY
  
  Bizhan Khademi, ORBITAL COPMLICATION OF PEDIATRIC PARANASAL SINUSITIS
  
  Farzaneh Ghasemzade, PREVALENCE OF OCULAR MANIFESTATION OF TUBERCULOSIS IN ZAHEDAN
  
  Masoomeh Eghtedari, ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC CHANGES OF HUMAN CORNEAL ETHANOL - MEDIATED FLAP VERSUS MECHANICALLY REMOVED EPITHELIAL FLAP
  
  Mahmood Nejabat, TOPICAL APPLICATION OF NATURAL HONEY IN TREATMENT OF EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED PSEUDOMONAS STROMAL KERATITIS IN RABBITS
  
  Mehrnaz Narooie-Nejad, ABSENCE OF LINKAGE TO GLC3B AND GLC3C IN IRANIAN PRIMARY CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA (PCG) PEDIGREES WITHOUT MUTATIONS IN CYP1B1 AND MYOC
  
  Fatemeh Suri, ROLE OF CYP1B1 MUTATIONS IN IRANIAN POAG PATIENTS ASSESSED BY A MICROARRAY BASED PROTOCOL
  
  Zahra Soheili, ASSESSMENT OF RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL (RPE) CELL PRIMARY CULTURE FROM HUMAN DONORS: AN AGE DEPENDENT STUDY
  
  Pegah Valiollahi, ADVERSE EFFECT OF FOREIGN BODY PARTICLES ON RETINA USING ELECTRORETINOGRAM

نقل از مجله ريدرز دايجست يکی از شماره های سال 2005

خانمی از که در مطب کار می کرد اينطور نوشته بود:
کار من در مطبی که در آن عمل ليزيک انجام می شد ايجاب می کرد که افرادی که موقع عمل مضطرب بودند را آرام کنم. يکی از مراجعين رسماً می لرزيد و از عمل واهمه داشت. موقع عمل که من بالای سرش بودم، وقتی ليزيک يک چشم به پايان رسيد ناخودآگاه به او گفتم: خوب ديگه، حالا فقط يه چشمت مونده.

سوالها و نظرات يک دوست، اسمشون رو ننوشتند

سلام . پس روکش کریزال اصل رو روی هر عدسیی میشه گذاشت؟ اینجا یک جفت اسلیور کریزال با ترنزیشن ان جی رو 120 قیمت دادن. قیمت زیادش به چه علته؟ خیلی ممنون .
6:06 AM
Aidin said...
با سلام و تشکر از بابت سوال شماچند علت برای گرانی اين عدسيها وجود دارد:اول اينکه تکنولوژی توليد اين روکش انحصاراً در اختيار دو سه کشور جهان است و توليد آن در کشورهای بازار مشترک وجود ندارد (اگر هم باشد متعلق به همان شرکتهای دارنده انحصار است). به عبارت ديگر، توليد و واردات اين عدسيها گرانتر از عدسيهاب ديگر است و البته مقتضای کيفيت بالای آنها هم هست.دوم اينکه مصرف اين عدسيها در ايران هنوز چندان شايع نشده. اگر تعداد بيشتری (خريد انبوه) از خارج انجام می شد، ارزانتر تمام می شد و با بالا رفتن تعداد عرضه کنندگان، رقابت در بازار باعث شکستن قيمت می شد. ناگفته نماند که من ذينفع نيستم ولی قيمتی که شما ذکر کرده ايد، اگر چه برای همه سهل اوصول نيست، ولی قيمت بی راهی هم نيست.
8:40 PM
x said...
راستی فرق بین لایه های مختلف کریزال چیهمثلا آلیزه یا آوانسه
12:40 AM
Aidin said...
show details 7:33 AM (0 minutes ago) Replyکريزال آليزه رو می شناسم ولی آوانسه رو شرمنده. آليزه کيفيت ضد انعکاسش خيلی بهتر از کريزال معموليه. اگر دو تاشون رو کنار هم روی يک کاغذ يا پارچه مشکی بذاری، شفاقيت برتر آليزه رو خواهی ديد، البته هر دوشون توليد يک شرکت هستند ولی آليزه مرغوب تره. نکته ديگه هم در مورد آليزه اينه که اثر انگشت کمتر روش می مونه و در واقع ديرتر کثيف می شه. اگر املای صحيح آوانسه رو داشته باشيد، می تونم اطلاعاتی پيدا کنم
2:34 PM
x said...
الان یک مطلب راجع به کریزال خوندم . این اقا از همه چیزش راضی بود جز یک مشکل و میگه بعد از کثیف شدن لنز با پارچه مخصوصه کریزال اونو تمیز کردم. گردو خاک رو پاک میکنه ولی چربی رو نمیتونه پاک کنه! و خیلی ناراحته از این موضوعhttp://manofconstantleisure.blogspot.com/2008/01/cheese-is-crizal-mighty.html
2:15 AM
Aidin said...
موضوع داره جالب تر می شه. ممنونم. چيزی که برای اون آقا پيش آمده... پيش آمده، پيش می ياد ديگه. دنيا پر از الاکلنگه. يه طرفشو می دی پايين، طرف ديگه اش می ره بالا. نمی دونم دوست عزيزمون ايکس عينک می زنين يا نه ولی یه موقعی عدسيها شيشه ای بود: با وزن بيشتر و شکستنهای خطرناک. پلاستيک جايگزين شد، سبکتر، شکستنش هم حل شد ولی پاک کردنش، خش افتادنش و ضخيم تر بودنش مطرح شد. ضريب انکسارشو بردند بالا تا نازک بشه، انعکاسش هم رفت بالا. روکش ضد انعکاس زدند روش، چرب شدنش مشکلساز شد. گفتند بی خيال عينک، کنتاکت لنز بزنيد، يه سری ماجرای ديگه، گفتند باشه لنز نمی خای بيا ليزيک و لازيک و شصت تا مدل ديگه سرت در بياريم، ...اين قصه سر دراز داره عزيز، هر کدام از اين روشها و محصولات خوبيهايی داره و بديهايی هم داره. ولی واقعيتش اينه که هر کدومش تا حالا مشکلات خيلی ها رو حل کرده. کلا در عدسيهای ضد انعکاس مشکل چرب شدن رو داريم ولی يکی اينکه کريزال اصلاٌ دستمال مخصوص نمی خواد، يا لااقل خيلی کمتر از عدسيهای پلاستيک ديگه دستمال مخصوص می خواد چون با دستمال و پارچه معمولی که زبر نباشه هم چيزيش نمی شه. اما عينکساز (يا اپتومتريست) اگر بخواد عزتت بکنه، دستمال مخصوص هم بهت می ده که طبهاً بهتره. البته همونطور که قبلاً هم صحبتش شد، کريزال آليزه مشکل چربيش کمتره. ولی خودمونيم، انصافاً با ضد انعکاس ديد شفاف تر می شه ولی عينک در هر حال دردسره، خوشا به سعادت اونهاييکه ندارند. آدم عادت می کنه ولی وقتی از شرش خلاص می شه ( و دچار یه سری شر ديگه می شه) تازه می فهمه که عينک چقدر مزاحمش بوده. من که به خاطر همين قضايا لنز مصرف می کنم. البته اونهم حکايت های خودشو داره ولی هر کسی يه چيزی به دردش می خوره و برای همين هم لازمه که برای اصلاح ديد با آدم اهلش طرف حساب بشی. کسی که هم صادق هم خبره و هم بدون حب و بغض باشه. که البته اون من نیستم، چه می دونم، شايد هم باشم

Time for you to do it, if you really want to

Here is some more about applying for optometry at UNSW



First of all, make sure you've read the previous post before you read this one.



Second, make sure that you check what I'm writing here on the web. Why? Because what I am writing now may not be correct a couple of months later, and this post will be there on the web hopefully for quite longer than just a couple of months. So, make sure you update this information on the web for yourself.



Third, ...

alright, go on read the rest of this post!



Here is the first place for you to go to now if you have prepared everything I asked you earlier:

http://www.grs.unsw.edu.au/futurestudents/futureinternational.html

It tells you what you need to do.

Did you go there and take a look?

Alright then here is what to do next: on the same page find "Apply online"

Click on it and you'll find yourself in myUNSW page. Right in th emiddle of the page, there is an icon (a pen) and again the words "Apply online". Click that one. That will take you to another page with another button right in the middle of the page: "Create New Account". You guessed it! Click on that button. You must see the page "Terms and conditions" now. Read conditions if you wish and click on "I Accept". There will be a form for you to fill in. Fill it in and press "Save & Continue". All you will have to do then is to follow the pages and fill in all the pages answering the questions. The end satge for online application however, will be to pay 50 Australian dollars online (credit card needed). You'll need to find a way to do that, or maybe you'll find a way to send the money to the university.

Otherwise go for downloading the forms and filling them in and sending 100 Australian dollars with your application. So the problem will be the same, you'll still need to find a solution for payment method. In both of the methods (online application or sending in the forms) you'll have to send your documents in through post. Your application most probably will not get finalised before all your supporting documents arrive in Graduate Research School (GRS) in Sydney. If you did what I told you earlier, that is if you have your documents already translated, this should be easy to do now.

I'll give you the links to the forms later. And one more thing: the next step will be to apply for a scholarship!! Yes! You can do that. Germans do that, candians do that, Indians, Nepalese, and Iranian have done that too. What you need: you'll need to show that you genuinely want to be a good scientist, you'll need to show that you know the basics of research and that you have done some good stuff so far. Ahhh, come on! I didn't say you need to have solid prior scientific achievement. I just said you need to show that you are good and that you can handle a research project that you will be trusted with. All they want to make sure is that you will not be a waste of money for them and that you'll be really capable of finishing the project you start becasue the basic objective for you as a PhD student will be:

TO BECOME A PhD!

That is what these people keep telling all the students.

Best Wishes my friend

Whether you think you can, or you think you can not

both ways you are right!!!

Do you want to apply for postgraduate optometry courses? Here is the "How To"!

دوستان متعددی ابراز علاقه کرده بودند که در مورد تحصيل در استراليا (اپتومتری) اطلاعاتی بدست آورند. با عرض پوزش به انگليسی می نويسم چون کسی که به اين اطلاعات نياز دارد، در نهايت چاره ای جز عادت کردن به اين زبان ندارد. خيلی راحت می توانيد تشخيص دهيد که آيا اين اطلاعات مورد نياز شما هست يا خير: اگر اينکه مطلب را به انگيسی در اينجا درج کرده ام، به نظرتان مسخره می آيد، قطعاً اين اطلاعات مورد نياز شما نيست و قطعاً قرار نيست در کشوری که به اين زبان صحبت می کنند زمانی را صرف کنيد.

1) To enrol for a course at UNSW, everything can be done over the internet.

How to do it? Read below, but what you read here is just the start. I'll write more later.

a) First of all go to google.com and type in UNSW optometry. This will lead you to the home page of UNSW optometry. Familiarise yourself with the site as much as you can. Believe you me, you will NEED it. The top of the page is the logo and just web art. Below that there are buttons. Click on "Staff directory" and then click on "Academic staff" on the page that comes up. You should then see a table with the names of the academic (professors/ teachers; whatever you prefer). Click on each of the names and read what each professor is researching. Try to match their interests with your own

b) Then again google, but this time type in Vision CRC Australia. Read as much as you can. Especially look under the button on the left hand side "Would you like to ...". Another very important page will be "Feature PhD". On the Vision CRC homepage (the same page where you found "Would you like to...". There is another button, "Latest News". Place your mouse on the butoon without clicking on it. A menu pops up. Click on "Feature PhD" in that menu. You'll not find me there, : ) (well ..., not yet) but whoever it is that is featured there, she/he must be doing well and you can learn a lot from what she/he has been doing. On the top of the page, where it is written "Feature PhD" in a dark red (maroon) font, see the tiny word "archive". Click on it and you'll find more of that, a lot more! Read what each student has done and is doing. This will tell you about the projects money is spent on and about scholarships and achievements the student has succeeded with. You can do it to.

c) In the meantime while you are reading the materials above, start collecting all the documents you can, and take them for official translation; things that tell that you are scientifically oriented and in love with science. Anything that shows that you have been doing whatever you could and you'll be capable of handling a research project. What they want to see in you is that you can start a project and handle it with the least of help from others. Help will be there when you need it for a project, but they prefer those candidates who are more pro-active and capable of doing the project even all alone if approved. Don't worry too much, I wasn't like that myself, especially when I started, but still I came through. I received a lot of help, and am still receiving, and maybe that is why as of this date (12.03.2008) you can not yet see me there among the featured PhDs on the website. But I'll be there someday, and soon. So you can too! You can! You can!

d) When you find out what you want to do as a researcher, and with whom (which of the professors) you prefer to do it, write to the person by email. By that time you should have a rough research title in your mind which may change several times later (change is alright). You tell the prson about your research idea. You should have some interest in the title you are giving, interested enough to spend 3-4 years of your life living with the title every moment.

All the above, may take 2-6 months to do. If you are really special, you may do it in a shorter time. I wasn't that much special, but I did it (though took me a long time to do it) and you can too. You can! You just may not know! But if you are here and you have read it all up to here, then you certainly can, and you will be a lot wiser if you'll believe you can.

آها! اين از اون وقتهاست که من کنترل خودمو از دست می دم و هر کاری دستم باشه زمين می زارم!

کنتاکت لنزی ساخته شده که مدارهای الکترونيکی روی آن نصب شده.

نتايج اين تحقيق دو هفته پيش در دانشگاه واشنگتن ارائه گرديده. خوب که چی؟ کاربردش چيه؟ اين مدار الکترونيکی قادر به نمايش پيامهای نوری است، حتی در همين حالت اوليه آن! محققين قصد دارند با تکميل کردن اين پروژه، تصاوير را روی کنتاکت لنز به نمايش بگذارند، بطوريکه بتوانيم پيامهای تصويری را بصورت معلق در فضای روبروی خود ببينيم. مجسم کنيد که بدون داشتن مونيتور بتوانيد تصاوير کامپيوتری را ببينيد بدون اينکه دنيای حقيقی از نظرتان محو شود! هنگام رانندگی (يا خلبانی) پيامهای راهنمايی کننده را دريافت خواهيد کرد و حتی شايد روزی اين تکنولوژی بتواند تصاوير دنيای حقيقی را اصلاح کند، يعنی ديد چشم را بهبود ببخشد يا مصافتهايی خيلی دورتر از آنچه می بينيم را به ما نشان دهد، تنها با اتصال به يک موبايل و سيستم نمايشگر مکانها ( که امروزه هم وجود دارد)، همه اينها امکانپذير خواهد شد.

ای بابا، اينهمه هيجان برای همين؟
نه! اصل موضوع اينجا است:
خبر فوق را از مطلبی استخراج کرده ام که در مصاحبه با استاديار دانشگاه واشنگتن، بابک پرويز بيان شده است.
http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=39094

بابک پرويز دارنده مدال برنز بيست و دومين المپياد بين المللی فيزيک و جايزه مقام اول از جشنواره خوارزمی بابت ساخت هواپيمای تک موتوره است. او در رشته فيزيک و مهندسی برق از دانشگاه ميشيگان فارغ التحصيل شده و دوره فوق دکترای خود را در زمينه شيمی و شيمی بيولوژيک در دانشگاه هاروارد به پايان رسانده.

سربلند باشيد که سربلندمان می کنيد

اينروزها بيشتر و بيشتر به قربانی بودن می انديشم.

آيا ما به راستی قربانی هستيم؟
قربانی چه چيزی؟
قربانی شرايط کشور؟
يا قربانی انديشه قربانی بودن؟
آيا واقعاً آن چيزی هستيم که شرايط به ما ديکته می کند؟
يا همانی هستيم که فراتر از آن تاب انديشيدن نداريم؟
اگر مرز بودن ما گستره انديشه ما است، تا کجا می توان مرزهای انديشه را گستراند؟
و اگر مرزهای انديشه تا آستانه حضرت حق گسترانده است،
پس چرا من اينچنين خود را در تار و پود شرايط اسير می بينم؟

من؟ يا شايد تو؟ شرايط چيست؟ تو شرايطی؟ تو خود محدوديتی!
ای من! ای تو! بايد که بشکافيم تا قربانی شرايط نمانيم!
برخيز و به جای ناله کردن از آنچه بر تو رفته است، بشکاف! بهار در انتظار توست!

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