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28-Mar-2009
Tehran is the Mega metropolitan city. Those who have ever been or lived in Tehran know it well how gigantic the city is. Tehran has no limits, the endless sprawl with thousands of neighborhoods that each holds its own character, culture and image. Some of the neighborhoods also represent different nationalities of the Iranian people with their beautiful languages. This is the story of Tehran from my own experiences and why I love the city so much.
I live in foothills of the Alborz Mountains on the 22nd floor. I own my apartment and have been living here for the past ten years. My windows open to the majestic Tehran Mountain and beautiful eternal city picture of houses and streets. The city is covered with smog during the hot summer days and the sound of horns are never ending music to remind all that the blood in the veins of the city is running.
I have a neighbor Eli who is a few years older than me. She is a divorce woman living a cross from my apartment. I tell her that her divorce is the best thing that has happened to me. We have become close friends and about three to four times a year, when we feel lonely and desperate, we become momentary lovers! We have a great understanding. I wait for spring and summer the moment the autumn ends because my life gets fun and exciting.
Tehran is huge but I don’t visit the city often. I hang out in my own neighborhood and work not too far from it. That’s me, a planner. I had planned it that way to live and work close by. I love the area so much that as soon as I leave my neighborhood I begin to miss it immediately. Even if I go further in the city, not leaving Tehran my heart begins to beat for my apartment, life and friends. As if I stay long enough I lose everything that I have! Not sure where the feeling comes from.
I am one of the luckiest people on earth. At least I feel that way and am very thankful to be healthy, single and happy in life. During the summer my friend Sina comes over and Eli asks her friend Roshanak to visit her place. Four of us hang out and talk and laugh most of the evening. My Balcony is small so most of the time we go to the roof and hang there. I am not good with words to explain my feelings when we all hang out and enjoy our warm summer evenings. Sunsets are just incredible. At night we normally move back to my place and I make tea while we play cards. Eli and I play against those two. The entire rooftops view becomes silvery orange and the smell…Oh the smell of the city. I long for the smell all winter. There is something in the air that makes you fall in love. That’s Tehran to me, that aroma.
I have an older lady who treats me like her own son stops by every other week and makes my place clean and shiny. My parents bring me food once in a while and I do have a decent job that pays my bills. I do not want to get married. My parents and family has given up asking me or letting me know that they can bring the “album” of choices if I choose to get married. Besides the guilt that my mother gives me about wanting to be a grandma, I don’t care what they think. I don’t want to change anything. I have it great. The only selfish worry that I have is for Eli to find a mate or Sina to leave town. He has applied for a job in Bandar Abbas and another in Bushehr. He likes it there and want to live in a heated city. I don’t understand why, but it will happen sooner or later. Nothing I can do to change the future but for the time being I live the life that I always wanted. I love Tehran and I love Life.
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Actually, I know Daryoush.
by TheMrs on Mon Mar 30, 2009 07:40 AM PDTActually, I know Daryoush. He lives in Tehran. And his apartment is so amazing. He is very chic. His neighbors are pretty cool too. Most of them aren’t even there most of the year. I know him because one time last year when I was in Tehran he gave a little mehmooni. I went with one of my cousins. He plays paasoor REALLY well. He ordered chelo kabab for lunch and it was really fun. Thanks man, see you soon.
"Pas Chi" shod?
by Anonymous111 (not verified) on Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:56 AM PDTI thought Iran was # 1 in technology. How do you want to compete with your archenemy Israel when you're still using early 90's dial up access for internet? Also, if Iran is so modern and democtractic as you always try to portray it to be, why do they block internet sites?
Think about that next time you want to post a nonsense "pas chi" comment!
Here or not, apples or oranges
by Multiple Personality Disorder on Sun Mar 29, 2009 05:28 AM PDTAt least I have some idea who this Daryush character is.
India
by Iranyvaliazad on Sat Mar 28, 2009 07:33 PM PDTHello Anush,
You being from India, perhaps you can tell us about ayatooleh Hendizadeh, khomeini.
Daryush is correct
by bahram9821 on Sat Mar 28, 2009 06:39 PM PDTHonest Hassani
by Majid on Sat Mar 28, 2009 06:27 PM PDTداداش سئوال های سخت سخت میکنی ها، بفرما ،کلیک کن
//www.taghvim.com/
//www.tisfoon.com/iran/
حدود چارده میلیون از این سایت ها رو اینترنت موجوده.......(-:
Multiple
by Parandeh (not verified) on Sat Mar 28, 2009 05:02 PM PDTIt looks like you're looking for an argument, which I am not in the mood for. So, I will leave this comment and will call it a day. You're comparing apples and oranges. Even if I am a registered user, I do not make that the centeriece of my argument. In the case of "Daryush", however, his alleged rsidence in Iran is the centerpiece of all his comments, and of this bolg. That is why it is so relevant.
Tehran
by greengage. (not verified) on Sat Mar 28, 2009 04:22 PM PDTThere are people in Tehran who have their own servers which they pay for handsomely!and they can access Iranian.com and any other site they wish to.
So now we run into another problem
by Multiple Personality Disorder on Sat Mar 28, 2009 06:55 PM PDTHere you are a registered user, using an anonymous non-registered user name to make a point about "superior grasp of issues", that means you are also a character yourself, someone other than your "normal" self as a registered user, and that "normal" self could also be a character other than your own "real" self. So what's the difference between you and Daryush? His character could be thought of as someone residing in North America pretending to be residing in Tehran, having an affair with a divorcee neighbor, and whatever else he wants to write about, and your character is what? I don't know! Who knows, you might be my best friend but I won't know it. Let me know and I'll promise you I'll read every blog and article you've ever written in this website, and then I'll judge your character against his and see who comes up on top.
My previous comment on this thread was about this story only. I have not read anything else from this writer, if there is any, and I have not read any of his comments elsewhere, with the exception of one, which I did not pay any attention to it as far as thinking this might be a person pretending to be living in Iran. I merely commented on this story as a stand-alone piece of writing.
Fasntastic
by Anush (not verified) on Sat Mar 28, 2009 02:10 PM PDTI am from India and always loved to visit Iran. I hope that you will write more and tell us the updates. Thanks a lot
Some people
by FereshtehBeheshti (not verified) on Sat Mar 28, 2009 01:57 PM PDTSome people seem to think that Iran and Iranians live in the dark ages. Many Iranians that I know are always in style and know what's what in fashions, movies and life styles. Not to mention that everything in here you can find in Iran too.
Daryush: Ageh raas meegee,
by Honest Hassani (not verified) on Sat Mar 28, 2009 01:01 PM PDTalaan saat chandeh oonjaa?
Thanks for comments
by Daryush on Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:56 PM PDTI have ADSL, and that is not offered in all areas. Most of my friends use dial up. My connection is slow with "Filter Shekan" and sometimes I can't even post a comment. It takes too long. They keep changing the filter shekan addresses, but I have been lucky with this one and the best thing about it: it's free. I have been using this one site for over a year now.
You can access any email programs that you like.
My Apartment has a rooftop available as mentioned in the blog above, and it even has a small garden and a little fountain. It depends on where you live and what kind of the deal you have when you buy your home.
*It took me about one hour to post this blog today.
I don't see any need to try to convince anyone where I live.
Until the next time :)
Multiple
by Parandeh (not verified) on Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:37 PM PDTActually it does kind of matter whether or not this is a true story in the greater context in which the writer appears on this site. He often ridicules other comentors and writers by saying that they don't know what they're talking about because unlike he, they don't live in Iran. So, his whole schtick is that he lives in Iran (which I don't think anyone believes) and in that way, he has a superior grasp of issues facing Iran. For that reason, the issue of where he lives is quite relevant.
MPD is hilarious in his comments
by Anahid Hojjati on Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:23 PM PDTMultiple Aziz, what a funny comment. I loved where you talked about the incredible sunset which is caused by incredible smog. I have to say after I made my comment to Daryush, I went back to some of the comments that Daryush had made regarding other articles and I also doubted that Daryush lives in Tehran. However, you are right about the fact that Daryush's story migh be combination and it does not have to be 100% truth. I just hope whoever is writing it and wherever he lives, at least he does some research about life in modern day Tehran for such group of single people. That way at least readers learn something.
Whether in Tehran or not, it doesn't matter
by Multiple Personality Disorder on Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:46 PM PDTThe writer doesn't have to give a notarized proclamation that what he writes is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This is not a book for publication which has to be qualified as fiction or non-fiction, or whatever label they want to put on it, and what if it's a combination of everything, and then does he have to give percentages. Frankly I want to know more about the city life, but the character has created an escape route for himself. He doesn't visit the city often, he hangs around his neighborhood, works close by,... So, no need to ask him for proof of his residency because he can get around answering that question.
I want to know more about Eli. How is she affording to live in that high-rise building being a divorcee? Gush darn it! Isn't it every man's dream to have a divorced woman living next door who is your good friend, and becomes your momentary lover four times a year! It's hard to believe you're not falling in love, especially when you spend so much time together up there on the roof watching the incredible sunset, which in caused by the incredible smog. I want to know what your neighbors think about your secret arrangement. How is this immoral behavior going to effect their daughter's life and her chance of getting married? Don't they care anymore what their neighbors do? Don't they see you on the roof? Don't they all come up there on the roof, because in the overcrowded city with all its restrictive rules it would seem that most of the residents would want to go up there for a relief from their high-rise living confinements, especially the elderly. Think about the subplots, and write more. Don't let the naysayers nail you.
This is a good short story to read, with minor insignificant grammatical errors.
Daryush
by Parandeh (not verified) on Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:28 AM PDTYou're not fooling anyone buddy. You don't live in Iran. This site cannot be accessed in Iran. Trsut me, I tried while I was there. And even if it can be accessed through re-routing, it is very difficult and cannot be done on regular basis. You are on constantly on this site. There is NO WAY you can be accessing this site on such regular basis from inside Iran. So don't BS us please!
And this story...well, I think I read it before in a magazine, especially the part about your divorced neighbor!
One question
by Former Citizen (not verified) on Sat Mar 28, 2009 09:51 AM PDTDarius,
Are you able to log in to Iranian.com back home? Please explain, I am to visit Iran and I need to know. Also can you check your emails in Iran if they are not in Yahoo, for example if you have gmail or hotmail, etc.
Thanks
Nice article, Daryush. It
by Anahid Hojjati on Sat Mar 28, 2009 09:24 AM PDTNice article, Daryush. It is interesting for those of us who are single and live in United States to read about how singles live in Tehran. I am glad that you are enjoying your single life. However, don't you think that you may need to make more close friends in case Eli finds someone or Sina moves from Tehran?