What did you do on 09-09-09-09-09?

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by ramintork
09-Sep-2009
 

I know time is arbitary, and depending on your timezone you would have been spending it differently from say someone across the world but as a snapshot of your life how did you spend the 9th second, of the 9th minute , of the 9th day of the 9th month of year 9?

Perhaps it is a sign of middle age when you emotionally not just mentally grasp that your time is precious and you will not live forever. You imagine yourself and others looking back at a life spent and wonder if it was spent well.

Here are two poems to mark the occasion, the first from Omar Khayam:

And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before
  The Tavern shouted - "Open then the Door!
You know how little time we have to stay,
  And once departed, may return no more."

Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
  And that after a TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries
  "Fools! your reward is neither Here nor There!"

Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
  Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust
Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
  Are scatter'd, and their mouths are stopt with Dust.

Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise
  To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
  The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
  Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
  Came out of the same Door as in I went.

With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
  And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd -
  "I came like Water, and like Wind I go."

Into this Universe, and why not knowing,
  Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing:
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
  I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
  Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
  Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
  Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to It for help - for It
  Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.

Here is what John Milton wrote when he realized he was losing his sight:-

Sonnet 19 (Sonnet XIX)
When I consider how my light is spent
John Milton

When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask; But patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at His bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait."

 

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Oops...double post!

by Azarin Sadegh on Wed Sep 09, 2009 08:35 PM PDT

... the effects of drinking too much coffee!


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Sipping my starbucks coffee..:-)

by Azarin Sadegh on Wed Sep 09, 2009 08:27 PM PDT

As usual, (like yesterday and the day before and last week and probably like tomorrow) I had already bought my cafe au lait at Starbucks, and I think I was happily drinking it at 9:09:09 this morning, getting ready to open The Word!

Now what's going to be my future?


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Funny that The Beatles are mentioned

by Kaveh Nouraee on Wed Sep 09, 2009 05:01 PM PDT

DK...

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ramintork

Dear Irandokht

by ramintork on Wed Sep 09, 2009 04:27 PM PDT

Thanks for your brief on 09-09-09.

The persian version of Khayam would be here somewhere:-

//ganjoor.net/khayyam/robaee/

 


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9-9-9

by maziar 58 on Wed Sep 09, 2009 03:43 PM PDT

NYN NYNiNyne. as they say it here in the south'.  the radio station we have here 105.9 fm playing beatles non stop all days today.

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IRANdokht

Dear Ramin

by IRANdokht on Wed Sep 09, 2009 02:04 PM PDT

Do you happen to have the Farsi copy of that Khayyam poem? 

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by capt_ayhab on Wed Sep 09, 2009 01:23 PM PDT

Before I know it, it  was 09-09-09-09-10 and I missed it all ;-)May be I'll beter equiped on 10-10-10-10-10, or 11/11/11/11/11

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-YT 


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FYI/ONCE IN A CENTURY: 09/09/2009

by Darius Kadivar on Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:31 PM PDT

I bought the Beatles Collector ... What Else ? ;0)

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