New year, new begining

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This is the first Norooz that I'm celebrating without my family. (Maybe the honest version is the first Norooz that I didn't want to celebrate). These past few years, I was the one who went to buy the goldfishes for haftseen and delivered them to my mom. This year, for my first haftseen I didn't have a goldfish. I didn't even want to have a haftseen. Thanks to my new friend and her cousin who came to my place for tahveel, we celebrate the New Year together and away from our own families. I enjoyed their companies. We talked, laughed, and did whatever girl friends do when they get together.

I'm amazed because I'm not even sad or homesick nor I have shut the emotions off. I've accepted it. It was my own choice to go away to study. At least this is what I think right now or I'm just too occupied with other things in my mind. There are so many mixed fellings here. I know I don't make any sense. But one thing is for certain and that is tahveel turned out totally amazing and not the way I planed it. thank god

Comments

Nazy said…
Daisy Joonam:

Celebrate life and all its occasions in whatever way feels good to you, making do with what you have. I'm glad you had an "unconventional" Nowrooz celebration with your friends. As I get older, I find I have more respect and longing for the way my mother did things. It has taken a loooong time for me to arrive here, though! I, too, have had some unconventional Nowrooz's with my friends over the years. Traditions are important but not to the detriment of celebrating the occasion!

I didn't get a goldfish this year, either, because it was sad to see them die last year. Hee Hee, when they don't die we have another story altogether! I saw a funny poster in my veterinarian's office in Tehran when I took Asghar, the cat, to see the doctor! It was a circle with a diagonal line cutting it in half (signifying "NO" as in road signs), with a goldfish in the middle! Its message was not to release live goldfish in the open waters, such as rivers, because goldfish are not local to those rivers' ecosystems and eat all the eggs of the local fish. In Iran where millions of goldfish are released into the rivers by people, this has caused a problem. They are only to be released in ponds and pools in certain Tehran parks, and that adds the extra burden of taking the goldfish to "designated" pools. I rather liked that I didn't have them this year.

Love you Daisy. Be good and happy happy new year!
March 22, 2008
Anonymous said…
Dear Daisy:
whatever, Conventional or unpredictable, happy new uear :D
While reading your post, what comes to my mind was only a combination of mixed feelings...
Something like having a brush, that constantly changes its color, and paint indiscriminatly with it.
All in all, although this post wasn't that much happy I like it alot as it was a pure feeling piece :-)
Previous year in saal-tahveel I was chatting with my friends (most of them abroad) and got faal-e-hafiz for them :D
(Do u want to know about my cloths?
well, I had put on a towel only :))
Guess what?
This year I wasn't even awake!

Cordially

Shobeir
March 24, 2008
Daisy said…
Nazy joon,

You're absolutely right. With goldfish or without goldfish, it's a new year and it'll be fantastic. It doesn't matter how I celebrate it, what it counts is the fact that I enjoyed it.
I found my friend’s cousin to be a very interesting person as well. I can see a long and good friendship after this visit. She leaves in Nashville though but so do most of my closest friends who live far away from me.
You take care. I hope you're doing very well.
March 25, 2008
Daisy said…
Dear Shobeir,

Ahha,,, I really liked that you used a changing colour brush as a metaphor for mixed feeling. It was a very interesting idea that is why you've the talent to write poems.

I'm glad you liked this post. Actually I was inspired by Nazy’s Friday post when I wrote it. It wasn't that sad after all. I typed every word that came to my mind. It's very fulfilling to write; I guess that is true for anything that is a manifestation of someone’ feelings such as painting, photography and etc.
take care and happy New Year to you too. I'll visit you soon for "eid didany" :)
March 25, 2008
Anonymous said…
Har didi yek bazdidi dare!
And this is your Bazdid ;)
بعضی چیزا رو نمی‌شه انگلیسی نوشت شرمنده
به به به
صد سال به این سال‌ها
ok that was enough :)
Shobeir
March 26, 2008
Daisy said…
Shobeir, thanks for visiting. Sometimes I wish I had the proper software to be able to write in Farsi. I know it's better for me to keep writing in English though. I need to improve my English and blogging in Farsi won't help that. Having said that I always enjoy reading in Farsi. So feel free to write in any language you want.
March 27, 2008
Anonymous said…
http://khabgard.com/traylayout-1.2.zip
This is good enough for farsi :D
Cordially
SHobeir
March 27, 2008
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