Keyvan Nayyeri

After a long time, finally they called me to serve.  I had it in mind to start my military service in October but my university didn't let me to do it.  Hidden rules to suffer young men, I'll write about these things later!  Every political word that I write here is more pain for me in military and they can't change anything!

However, according to what they've sent, I must start my training on February 20, 2007.  This means I'll be off on our new year ceremony and all spring long!

Actually I never could believe how long should I serve in training.  Some guys say two months, others say three, four, five, six, ...!  But apparently I won't be able to keep here up.  I have some plans to write stuff and leave them for someone to publish them in order to prevent military from destroying everything in my life but it depends on the time and effort that I'll have in incoming months.  While training, I won't be at home for more than 3-5 days per month (it's not predictable but I got an average from others experiences).  Anyway, I'll be off for 3-4 months to pass training then they will kick me out to somewhere else to waste remained months!

There are many things to write about military service and this government but let me write them when I'm not here.  I can't predict good military for myself and anyone who will serve with me but I hope it goes in peace.  I don't see any light in this space for myself except one: I'll be free to travel to wherever I want after that!  It's left to me to try to pass these two years without loosing what I have and this isn't easy at all.  Here primary goal of military is to get these things and I should try more and more!

I heard some news about changes in military rules which force us to serve for more months (24 months) but I couldn't confirm them yet.  I'll be 25 when they will let me to leave.  Then I simply wasted 3 years of my life in this country, it really sucks!