Worth Reading!!

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well.
The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway;
it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.
They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.
At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly.
Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw.
With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing.
He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,
he would shake it off and take a step up.
Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey
stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!MORAL :
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt.
The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up.
Each of our troubles is a stepping stone.
We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.
Remember the five simple rules to be happy: 1. Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.2. Free your mind from worries - Most never happens.3. Live simply and appreciate what you have. 4. Give more.5. Expect less from people but more from God.


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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Corey

WHENEVER Richard Corey went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown,

Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich—yes, richer than a king,

And admirably schooled in every grace:

In fine, we thought that he was everything

To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,

And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

Went home and put a bullet through his head.

هربار که ریچارد به بازار می آمد

ما پیادگان غرق تماشایش می شدیم

او ز سر تا پا اصالت بود و نجابت

طبعش بی مانند در لطافت

اندامش در زیبایی بی نهایت

همیشه آراسته بود و پیراسته

و گاهِ سخن انسان بود و بی کینه

ضربان قلب هامان دوچندان می شد

هربار که سلاممان می کرد

و با هر گامش گویی نوری بر ما تجلی می کرد

ثروتی فزون از شاهان داشت

و در هر خیر و خوبی دستی داشت

به یک کلام، تمام فکر و خیالمان شده بود

تمام آرزویمان که کاش به جای او بودیم

و ما کار می کردیم کار

و بر رسیدن نور انتظار می کشیدیم انتظار

ما بی گوشت سر کردیم و بر نان دشنام

و ریچارد در شبی تابستانی و آرام

گلوله ای بر سر شلیک کرد و دیگر تمام

Translated by: S.Karimi

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آقامنش از پنجه پا تا به سرش

ریچارد کوری بود و همه دربدرش

محبوب همه، لاغر و خوش فرم بدی

ما خیره بدو در ملاء عام بدی

آراسته تر زو نبدی در همه شهر

انسان تر از او کس نبدی در همه دهر

ای کاش که ما نیز بدیم چون ریچارد

پولدار،همه اِندِ کمال چون ریچارد

ریچارد نگو پادشه دهر بگو

پولدارتر از پادشه شهر بگو

بر سفره ما هیچ نبد غیر از نان

جز لعنت و افسوس چه بودی به میان!

لیکن همه ماجرا نبود این ای جان!

در یک شب آرام از آن تابستان

ریچارد شدی در حرم خانه خویش

یک تیر زدی در وسط کله خویش

Translated by: A.Bashardoost

Learn Vocabulary & Feed Hungry People!

About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds,and unfortunately, it is children who die most often.

Now,if you wanna have a part in helping to end hunger in the world,here's quite an easy way:

FreeRice.com is a website in association with the UN World Food Program (WFP),which Provids English vocabulary to everyone for free & helps to end hunger in the world by providing free rice to hungry people.

All you should do is playing a vocabulary game on the site! To play the game, you should click on one of the four definitions given for a word that you think is the correct one. If you get it right, FreeRice donates 20 grains of rice to WFP to help end hunger!

FreeRice has a custom database containing thousands of words at varying degrees of difficulty. There are words appropriate for people just learning English and words that will challenge the most scholarly professors. In between are thousands of words for students of all ages, business people, homemakers, doctors, retired people… everyone!
FreeRice starts by giving you words at different levels of difficulty. There are 60 levels in all. When you get a word wrong, you go to an easier level. When you get three words in a row right, you go to a harder level.

Over 35 billion grains have been donated up to now by people around the world who played this game on FreeRice

IT'S YOUR TURN NOW!

Play The Game

And Remember...

Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide... :)

Chris de Burgh to visit Iran to decide on concerts

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Singer Chris de Burgh, who has a loyal following in Iran, said on Tuesday he will visit the country in May to decide on staging concerts there.

The manager of Iranian band Arian, which has collaborated with de Burgh, said last year the concerts would be the first time since the 1979 revolution that an Iranian pop band had performed with a Western singer in the Islamic Republic.

Manager Mohsen Rajabpour said in his comments in December the concerts were planned for June or July at a Tehran stadium complex and that Iran's authorities had given their approval.

"I have been invited to go. Again, I know there are people who do not agree with this but I must tell those people ... we are not -- my friends and I -- politically naive," de Burgh told English-language satellite channel Al-Jazeera.

"We know the situation there. We know both sides of it. We are not going there to change the world, the culture. I am going to sing for people not leaders," he told the Doha-based channel.

Iran is locked in a dispute with the West over its nuclear ambitions, which Western nations fear are aimed at building bombs. Tehran insists its intentions are entirely peaceful.

"Just to show people that we are serious about this, we are going to make a trip at the end of May, for a few days, just to see what the situation is and then make a call on whether we can do the shows there or not," de Burgh said.

De Burgh, born of British parents and brought up in Ireland, is popular in Iran and his Web site message board (http://www.cdeb.com) has had several entries from Iranian fans.

Western pop songs with lyrics are banned by Iran's authorities although state radio sometimes plays instrumental versions. Iranian pop bands say their lyrics and tunes are vetted before they can be officially sold in Iran.