Dear Farnaz:

Thank you, I took a very hot bath a little while ago, am clean and dry (no longer perspiring, yuck), I am about to wash the bedsheets and get into a dry, clean bed; so yes, I am feeling better.

“have a lot of liquids, unfortunately that is the extend I can help“- actually, that’s a lot of help: I completely forgot to drink liquids. I normally drink very little water/ water-like and no exception when sick, so thank you! (Ever since you told me that you work in healthcare, I’ve been curious to know whether you are a medical doctor…)

“It’s not true , women with same education in same level of work have equal salary… that’s not true either“- like I said before, lots of misinformation (mistaken info) and disinformation (purposefully wrong).

“Regarding modesty, actually I believe the limitation of some families made their children overly sexual“- what kinds of limitations? And what do you consider desired modesty vs undesired modesty? (I will answer the same, if you want me to).

“I studied abroad… I had classmates from different nationalities, Icelandic, Swedish, Israeli, French, and sometimes it amazed me how they could grow up in the environment where apparently they were protected by law and government, but they still choose to be in very bad and abusive relationships. They wanted to be miserable by choice“- (1) I was born, and grew up in Israel, by the way. My first language- as a young child- was French (mother from Morocco, father from Romania) and second, Hebrew. There were plenty of Iranian immigrants in Israel, when I was growing up, (2) yes, lots of abuse everywhere, in the so called developed and underdeveloped countries. I don’t think that people WANT to be miserable though. It’s that they want something (ex., love)… but it happens to be accompanied by abuse.

“If you believe you can’t handle your life alone, you would put up with very bad situations and very bad people, I’m guilty of it too, mostly about my choices of friends, and almost once, with a man“- I wonder what happened with that man. We can swipe horror stories in regard to men, if you’d like to do that (I have nothing better to do today, as it seems I will be staying home ALL day!).

anita