Understandingly, If I start writing about a million times-heard boring stuff, there is always a chance no one reading my materials, so I try not to go down that road, but I feel like costumes, cuisine, and traditions I’m about to unveil are worth reading about. If you think about it, humanity is a very diverse concept wrapped around the same nature, dancing around the same instinctive fire, but oddly enough its exposed face is as varied as the droplets in the ocean, unbelievably diverse.
30 Sep 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
Does it hurt? Just take it slow. Can you hear leaves rustling in the wind's gentle flow? And the soothing touch of tree-shaded reprieve? In these pictures alone, feelings may deceive, Yet sometimes, that's all we need to know. Does it hurt? I und...
28 Sep 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr
Yesterday, I strolled through a gallery of winter portraits, I marveled at the state of my soul in those frozen frames. Nostalgia wraps around me like a warm embrace, I yearn for those days of apathetic grace. Back then, I bore a hidden pain, a sile...
24 Sep 2023 1 minute read 5 comments Melina Mehr
Beneath the endless aches, where sorrows lie, The morning's visit, waves that roar and sigh, This land, its treasures and all I've found, Still gleams, ablaze, with beauty all around. The boundless blue, it lingers by my side, An extraordinary natu...
7 Sep 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
People change; it's an inherent part of our existence. For me, nature has always served as a wellspring of inspiration, tranquility, and a safe haven. The lush, verdant landscapes, saturated with life-sustaining rain, have a profound effect on my...
12 May 2023 1 minute read 5 comments Melina Mehr
With spring spreading greenery and colors in northern Iran, waterfalls are the most desirable natural sights for tourists and local folks to visit the same. Laton Waterfall in Lavandavil village, near Astara city, in the north of Iran, is one of t...
29 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
In the midst of unholiness, as people despair left and right, there is always a narrow ray of hope, shining through the smallest cracks of the earth. The embodiment of never-stopping yet unsatisfied humanity's endeavor for justice and salvation. If y...
20 Apr 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
We have started a new chapter as a nation, something really exciting and terrifying indeed. Whenever we go, we recognize each other by shouting: woman! Life! Freedom! Cyclists riding the freeway showed me victory signs as I yelled our motto, no wo...
9 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
For most my life, I had a different vision of what happiness must look like. To be honest, we didn't even believe in happiness and desire and raised to be humble, desire none and respectful to what life throw at us. I could live like that and it wou...
17 Mar 2023 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr
We are approaching the New Year and spring is upon us. The season of growth. This year was a strange one indeed. A thrilling painful year full of uncertainty, regret, unity, and eventually hope. Its autumn started with an uncanny shock; the Unholy...
20 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
When you want to climb a high peak with the least equipment, the most important thing you can rely on is your own physical and mental strength. In that regard, our climbing group that had planned to prepare for the Sabalan adventure (the third hig...
