آن سوی روپوش سفید

Teaching pharmacy students has been a big part of my life for many years.

I have studied, taught, lived with students at the Azad and Tehran Colleges of Pharmacy, and spent many years of my life acquiring knowledge that I still respect and believe in.

But sometimes, even in the closest and most familiar parts of life, a sense of distance forms, like the one I had with others today at the Pharmacy Day ceremony... I couldn't remember the names of the people I had lived with for years.

I don't know where this gap started.

From an old choice?

From a forgotten teenage dream?

From growing up?

From responsibility?

Where do I stand in this life?

"Beyond the White Coat" is the story of a new encounter; an encounter with the piano, with my own hands, Madame's hands, Madame's voice, with memories of adolescence, and with a part of my being that could never be summed up in my current job title.

In this nonfiction, I write about the piano, but perhaps in all these years I have written more about distances than anything else  .

The distance between me and the part of life I have chosen.

A distance I don't want to deny.

This non-fiction is written and published on the occasion of Shahrivar 5th, Pharmacist and Pharmacy Day. 

Sepideh Arbabi
, pharmacist, toxicologist, art therapist, and professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy

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