Yeahp. I’m lazy. I’m so lazy that. I’m holding down a job, going to ITE in 2 weeks time, going for O’levels classes 5 days a week for three hours each, trying to get a motorcycle and car license, and still found time to volunteer for the community. Yeahp. I’m lazy.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
— Mahatma Gandhi (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
This man was driving me across Tehran yesterday, when I learned that he’d lived for 8 years in America— incidentally on the same STREET as me in Georgia.
He first crossed into the United States from Mexico— paying $1,500 to be transported across the border. He wanted to go to University and be a dentist, but learned that the idea of America was much more bountiful than the reality. He worked at a factory job for 8 years, without ever being able to get a drivers license. He wasn’t able to find a foothold in society. After 9/11, he said things got much tougher for Middle Eastern immigrants. “I had a great passion for the American people,” he said. “When 9/11 happened, I had no money, so instead I gave my blood.”
Five years ago he spent a night in jail for driving without a license. He decided he was tired of being nervous all the time, and he went all out for a green card. When he was turned down, he returned to Iran.
His fee for a 45 minute taxi ride across Tehran was only $6. I paid him the rate he’d have received in America, and asked for his photograph. He was the kind of man I most admire. The kind that realizes you get one shot at life, and risks everything to make the best of it. I was sorry it didn’t work out for him.
“It was my destiny,” he said. He didn’t sound like he believed his own words though.
“Are you married?” I asked.
“Yes. I met my wife when I returned to Iran.”
“Well there you go,” I said.
As I prepared to take his photograph, he made one request: “Don’t photograph me with the taxi,” he said, “it’s a low class job.”
“It’s not a low class job,” I said. “It’s the job of people who take huge risks so their children can be lawyers and surgeons.”
(Tehran, Iran)
Read this.
My heart melted
Reblogging this again (Y)
(via thebeautyofislam)
Love brings you face to face with your self. It’s impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.
— John Pierrakos (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
