Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day’s work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
- Sir William Osler
- Sir William Osler
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I think I can speak on behalf of people who are bilingual or speak more than a language and confirm that..
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You'll always feel like there is a language barrier between you and someone who's monolingual, its more complicated to express your thoughts without slight hesitations
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On that thought,
I kinda feel like it's the same when it comes to Professions.
I kinda feel like it's the same when it comes to Professions.
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If you're a professional in your field and you invest much of your time and energy in it. Whenever you would have a long enough conversation with someone, you're gonna be hit with that same "language barrier" feeling
صاحِبُ السلطان كراكِبِ الأسد: يُغبَطُ بموقِعه وهو أعلَمُ بموضِعِه
- علي بن أبي طالب (ع)
- علي بن أبي طالب (ع)
What do they call the feeling of nostalgia for an "imagined" perfect past, not even a real one?
On a second thought, almost all nostalgia is a feeling of longing for an imagined past, not a real one.
The perfect past is only perfect as we remember it now (not as we lived it). It's only perfect as a past moment, as something we can look at from a distance. Just as we enjoy war movies because we're watching them through a screen, and not actually living through the war.
I guess nostalgia is simply: The past, beautified and reimagined. By feeling nostalgic, we create a myth of a blissful past so we can distract ourselves from the imperfect present... Which is not necessarily a bad thing to do.
The perfect past is only perfect as we remember it now (not as we lived it). It's only perfect as a past moment, as something we can look at from a distance. Just as we enjoy war movies because we're watching them through a screen, and not actually living through the war.
I guess nostalgia is simply: The past, beautified and reimagined. By feeling nostalgic, we create a myth of a blissful past so we can distract ourselves from the imperfect present... Which is not necessarily a bad thing to do.
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جاهدة وهبى – جفنه علم الغزل
جَفنُه عَلَّمَ الغَزَل ومِن العِلم ما قَتَل
فحرقنا نفوسنا في جحيمٍ من القُبَل
ونَشَدنا ولم نَزَل حُلُمَ الحبِّ والشباب
حُلُمَ الزهرِ والندى حُلُمَ اللهوِ والشراب
هاتِها من يدِ الرضا جرعةً تبعثُ الجنون
كيفَ يشكو من الظما من له هذه العيون
فحرقنا نفوسنا في جحيمٍ من القُبَل
ونَشَدنا ولم نَزَل حُلُمَ الحبِّ والشباب
حُلُمَ الزهرِ والندى حُلُمَ اللهوِ والشراب
هاتِها من يدِ الرضا جرعةً تبعثُ الجنون
كيفَ يشكو من الظما من له هذه العيون
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جاهدة وهبى – جفنه علم الغزل
قُل لمن لامَ في الهوى هكذا الحبُّ قد أمرْ
إنْ عَشِقنا فعُذرُنا أنّ في وجهِنا نَظَرْ
إنْ عَشِقنا فعُذرُنا أنّ في وجهِنا نَظَرْ