Stop Being So Religious...

Nothing to write, no images to add...just bask yourself in the beauty of this poem by Hafiz...

What do sad people have in common?

It seems

They have all built a shrine

To the past

And often go there

And do a strange wail and

Worship.

What is the beginning of

Happiness?

It is to stop being

So religious

Like That.

("The Gift" - versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)

Paris month....

And, this is the Paris month. Two years ago on the 22nd of May 2010 my sister and I made our first international trip to Paris. Well, it was my second international trip, first being Egypt. My sister's first. 

About Paris, I'll sum up to some of the dialogues from the movie Midnight in Paris.  I completely agree with what Adriana has to say - "That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me." and  "I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night" And not only this, we also witnessed the rain...yes..the city looks all the more gorgeous in rain and that's what even Gil says - "Can you picture how drop dead gorgeous this city is in the rain"? This!!!!

Hold on...this is the picture that I clicked of the Galaries Lafayette 

And now, this is the picture -courtesy Paris fotopedia.

Similar. Aren't they, yes the latter is clicked by a professional photographer, while I'm not even an amateur one...but, I was completely besotted by this magnanimous ceiling of this shopping gallery. 

I know, a lot of randomness in this post...but, that's what Paris does to you...