Mental programming

Friday the 19th of September

H., her relatives, my cousin and I spend a wonderful evening in this most extreme American inspired bowling hall. The evening of the 19th of September was warm enough to stay outside. I am describing this event very shortly just to mention the main point; we smoked nargile (water pipe) in the garden. It awakened such a peaceful feeling within due to the simple reason; it was breaking cultural codes. It made me happy though I am aware that it may sound a bit foolish. Somehow it is not ok for women to smoke in Kurdistan, and this view of women smoking was a bit strange for the men. The small bushes settled for the purpose of defining the line between the areas where the men and families could sit seperated were so simplistic that all the men were looking into the “forbidden zone”. Do you get the picture or do you need a further demonstration? I think these breakages of cultural codes will change the mentality of the people. The main challenge in the mental programming of the people is to find courage enough fighters who most surely will in the first face loose all the battles.

C. is for cultural shorish (revolution) in Kurdistan.