"The Benefits of Being Vegetarian"



Today, modern society has placed an emphasis on "healthy living". A well balanced diet, exercise and healthy lifestyle habits are significant to physical well being. In this sense, many individuals choose a vegetarian eating pattern.

There is no single vegetarian eating pattern. The vegetarian diet is mainly plant foods: vegetables, fruits, legumes, grains, seeds, and nuts. By meticulous observation we agree that the vegetarian eating pattern consists of low fat and no cholesterol dishes. In addition, we can actually have a great vegetarian meal without meat or any animal products. Besides the salutary aspect that most people would care about health, diet, and figure when they converse about the vegetarian diet, the spiritual aspect of a vegetarian diet is also remarkable.

All live beings desire to live and are afraid to die. We do not want to be eaten by a cannibal, so why should animals be eaten by humans? Eating meat is against the universal principle of not wanting to be killed. Although, eating plants is also killing living things, but the effect is trivial. As we have to eat to survive, we should choose the food which has the least consciousness and suffers the least.

In this Perspective the level of consciousness of the plant is so low because it consists of 90% water. Furthermore, when we eat vegetables, we do not cut their roots, but rather by cutting branches and leaves we help their reproduction. The result can actually be beneficial to the plant. This is even more evident with fruit. When fruit ripens, it will attract people to eat it. If we do not pick and eat it, the fruit will become overripe and will fall to the ground to rot. So, eating vegetables and fruit is a natural tendency that brings to them no suffering at all.

In conclusion, vegetarian diet is an effective way to ensure healthy living. In another perspective, if human beings eat many animals, they will probably be affected with animal instinct and quality. Moreover the life span of the flesh eating people is very short on average.

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One of the Iranians customs:

Being polite is considered as a part of the Persian culture. Tarrof has deep roots in the Iranian custom of treating politely. It is a cultural custom that consists of refusing something which has been offered to you even though you want it.

According to it, if you are offered s.th, like a tea or sweet, even if you want it, at first you decline it until the offerer persists and the insistence becomes greater . So,this tradition encompasses different levels until the fellow ultimately accepts the offer or may refuse it .As an example when you want to buy s.th. and ask for the price; the shopkeeper will inevitably, out of politeness, refuse to quote a price and say it is worth

nothing. However,in reality, he would like to be paid and is just being humble.

A host is obliged to offer anything a guest may want, and a guest is equally obliged to refuse it. This ritual may repeat several times before the host and guest finally determine whether the host's offer and the guest's refusal are real or simply polite.

In some occasions,when you offer s.th,you may ask the addresser not to t'aarof, but that request raises new difficulties, since the demand itself might be a type of t'aarof.

((Eternal Memory))
I wish he were alive…!

He was a kind hearted man who had sacrificed a lot in his life. When he was a little boy, he was deprived of the God's gift of having a father. However he was an orphan child, he could pass through the corrugated tides of life deftly. In his early age, because of the imposed forces that his mother could not afford the children, he decided to leave the education and began to work. In the path of life, he was galloping through the obstacles and could endure all the problems. In fact, he was acting as a heroic figure who could feat in the war of troubles and could accomplish a long, arduous journey intrepidly.


After a long time, when he was retired and wanted to feel a zest of life, he faced with another impediment which deprived him of another God's gift of being healthy. Yes, he had been ill with an illness said to be incurable. In this stage of life, he had the feeling of being unable to give up the delicious excitement of life that was nothing except spending time with his grandchildren and having fun with them, which was the only thing that could be called living for him.


Now when I as his grandchild repeat all these immortal memory in my mind
I wish he were alive…!

By Roya to my lovely grandfather who has taught me everything and remains in my mind forever.