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Thoughts from Tehranavenue.com
Click
By Zahra Amirebrahimi
It is clear that when you want to celebrate the coming of spring, you must pick topics and words that are pleasant to the ear and that infuse your reader with a sense of hope; otherwise, how can you greet the New Year the way spring deserves.
I know that we promised ourselves not to nag about things, to write in a way that others can also.... Ah! I can't feign happiness, lie, and give my writing the semblance of joy. Here, outside Iran, I am away from the gray streets of my birthplace. When I get nostalgic, I go on-line, click on websites to read the news of my home country. I click to replace my home-sickness with sorrow and regret. I am not sure what's happening to this city, to its citizens, to its students, workers, teachers, women, journalists, to its writers and intellectuals, to its "thugs."
I click and read the news of executions, stoning, prisoners, boycotts, and inflation.
I click and remember my nagging and I continue to nag.
I click and remember the glacial hell of traffic and a citizenry ready to get at each other's throat.
I click and remember the dreams and hopes of the thousands and thousands of youth and the neglect of elders.
When I click, I become acrimonious towards myself.
To read the whole article: http://tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=796
Source: Tehranavenue.com (Iran), April 2008
Posted at: 2008-05-05
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