I left Iran with a heavy heart years ago, when I was almost 19, alone, without knowing any other language besides Farsi, without my family's support, and without much money in my pocket. You could say, 'Wow, brave girl? What was going on in your head? Why would anyone leave their family, their country, to come out and do what?"
The answer is that I didn't have any answers. All I knew was- I don't want to live in this place where I can't breathe, where I have to think twice before stepping out, think twice about who I'm hanging out with, what I can study, what I should wear to not get arrested by the morality police. I've lost count of how many times I was stopped by them, I got arrested and spent all my money to pay them to let me go. Once, I spent two nights in a police cell, watching my friends being punished by lashes. Some incidents I've forgotten since I moved out. But then, I am still Iranian, I still have friends and family back home.
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