Persepolis

Back in Iran, she turned out to be much progressively discouraged. She was 19 years of age, her long-time friends had rejected her as a corrupt individual, she had felt as if she belonged nowhere and had no place that she can call home. She attempted to cut her wrists, however failed at that “a fruit knife was never going to do the trick”. She took an overdose of antidepressants, yet they simply made her rest for three days allowing her to escape everything that she was going through. She ended up studying while in Iran and fell in love with graphic design while studying she found love at the age of 21 and married a young artist like herself who ended up being her polar opposite He let her to do what she wanted, yet regardless she felt constrained. After a month they were sleeping in different beds, after three years they were separated. As a young lady, she says, she got things so off-base. "I was so stupid when I was 20. I could do mathematics extremely quickly so I had this kind of intelligence, but the intelligence of life I didn't have. I was too aggressive, making all the bad choices, believing I was a nice person and I was not, believing I was a mean person and I wasn't. Everything I thought was wrong. With age things become better and better." At 24, she came back to Europe, and completed a second craftsmanship degree in Strasbourg. She bolstered herself by yoga exercises and learning different languages. When she finished studying she expected to be famous, but no one was interested.

- Ripin