A natural process that affects not only living organisms but also non-living things. Everything has a beginning and an end. This applies to people, animals, plants, as well as to the material and non-material world. By the way, ideas are also susceptible to degradation.
The notion of freedom is changing, as are many other things in our lives. Afghan and Iranian women's freedom has become a piece of shagreen, shrinking by the day and potentially turning before our eyes into a ridiculous scrap of faded parchment holding the dusty dogmas of religious radicals.
Behavior within the social unit of family can often be observed on a larger scale, that of individual social groups, and, sometimes, entire states. The patriarchal family, as an example of the family advocated by the main religions, is copied at other levels. Man is the head of a family, clan, social group, autocratic state.
“Həsrət qalmaq” is an Azerbaijani idiom that accurately conveys the feelings of those yearning for the brilliant heights occupied by the modern government officials with their unfettered access to the treasury. To more than the treasury, in fact. Our reality is that we don’t even have access to the Caspian Sea. Not the treasury—our sea, those dear, familiar, beckoning, affectionate waves.