Azadeh

When I was in high school, my friend and I made a promise, her name is Azadeh too. We were so much into being better human beings and defined our own system. It was quite simple and effective. If you do anything wrong you should pay a few Tomans, Iranian currency where 1 USD is 850 Tomans. As far as I remember our system had some sort of reward for good acts too, but we were in debt all the time. At the end of the school year, we spent the money to go to an art museum and have pizza together which was pretty surprising for me. The system worked really good for me not because I had to pay for my faults, but mostly because I am too competitive and I could not stand to be worse than her. Or to be honest, I strongly care about my public image.

Now I am going to make the same system for myself and use my friends here as the motivation. I want to make a promise each month and at the end of the month I would report a daily curve of the number of my shiftinesses.

The promise of this month is: “I will treat everybody with the highest degree of respect, no matter how I feel about them“.

Wish me luck.