Ignoring ourselves...

In the childhood one of the messages that we receive is not to be ourselves, to be anyone else but not ourselves. We spend lots of energy and time to impress others or draw their attention instead of helping ourselves to grow. As a child we want to give others the message that we are a sweet and lovable child.

We are grown up in a culture that being humble is appreciated and we never learn to express ourselves or talk about the good things we have done in a proper way. It is forbidden to talk about ourselves, instead we are seeking opportunities to find good things in others and give them unrealistic exaggerated compliments.

Especially in architecture, our traditional architects were used not to put their names on the building. There are so many good historical buildings constructed in Iran in the last 200 years that no one knows who has made them. The name of the architect is not mentioned at all or written somewhere invisible on the building.