Our mothers knew about Recycling Business long before us. How? Read this. Culture is the sum of behaviours, thoughts, perceptions, ideas, life styles, events, habits, and knowledge that are shared among a group of people. One of those shared ideas is the everyday life of people, the implicit and the explicit form of it, the…
Month: July 2007
Relationship (Rabete)
Let’s see if we could evaluate our relationships? In every relationship there are ways to fall into darkness of doubt and anger. Evaluation or checking out our ways of behaving in a relationship is a good measure for ourselves, if we are interested to know what is going on. We can also evaluate how our…
Mental health issues and Depression
In our Iranian culture In those old good days, our Iranian culture considered depression being a “luxury illness”, something just for the “rich people” who were tired of all the privileges in life and did not know what to do next!” a type of illness just for the upper middle class ! Now we know…
Salamati Roh va Ravan
Our mental health or salamti roh va ravan has a direct relationship to something that has been forced upon us and has been taken away from us: Our personal choice! In our Iranian culture, usually we do not have many choices. We are constantly forced to do things that we do not like; we are…
Happier Iranian Life
How to Live a Happier Iranian Life A few years ago, we went to see a rental apartment that was advertised in a Persian newspaper. Since we had made an appointment with the owner, we arrived at the door on time and rang the door bell. The door was opened by a middle…