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It is always present tense in a foreign language

6/18/2019

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​The first verbs you learn in most languages are in present tense: I walk, you eat, we read, …. To live in the present tense is reassuring and concrete: there are no regrets, no memories, no fear of what has not yet happened. It is very liberating: taking the moment as it is, aware of it as it happens: Pain or pleasure.
It is like when I swim: just me and water, floating weightless, aware of body and its motion, strokes cutting into water, the muffled sound under water, a total immersion, a moment of release and purity. I don’t like it when I swim with my mind on 1000 things I need to do, like to do or should have done. Then the swim is over and I have lost the time without gaining the pleasure! 
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    Born & Raised in Tehran. educated in the US, my ancestors hail from Tehran, Tabriz, Ordubad, Shiraz, Yazd,  and all the wild lands where the tribes of Afshar & Shahsavan roam

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