{"id":290,"date":"2009-06-19T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2009\/06\/courage.html"},"modified":"2009-06-19T23:01:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T23:01:14","slug":"courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2009\/06\/courage.html","title":{"rendered":"Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an Iranian student on her blog<\/a>.  Look for 3:09 PM.<\/p>\n

“I will participate in the demonstrations tomorrow. Maybe they will
\nturn violent. Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get
\nkilled. I’m listening to all my favorite music. I even want to dance to
\na few songs. I always wanted to have very narrow eyebrows. Yes, maybe I
\nwill go to the salon before I go tomorrow! There are a few great movie
\nscenes that I also have to see. I should drop by the library, too. It’s
\nworth to read the poems of Forough and Shamloo again. All family
\npictures have to be reviewed, too. I have to call my friends as well to
\nsay goodbye. All I have are two bookshelves which I told my family who
\nshould receive them. I’m two units away from getting my bachelors
\ndegree but who cares about that. My mind is very chaotic. I wrote these
\nrandom sentences for the next generation so they know we were not just
\nemotional and under peer pressure. So they know that we did everything
\nwe could to create a better future for them. So they know that our
\nancestors surrendered to Arabs and Mongols but did not surrender to
\ndespotism. This note is dedicated to tomorrow’s children…”<\/p>\n

May the Sacred bless her life and her soul, and others like her, in whatever way is best for them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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