Who Am I? — Part 3 of 6

I am Fanni

welcome to a chapter of my life that I am truly proud of, a time that became one of the most glorious periods I have ever lived.

Year 2023 The final year of high school, majoring in mathematics and physics. During the first semester, the Ministry of Education organized cultural and artistic competitions at the city level. I participated in the writing category — and won first place.

The final year of high school

In the second semester, the competition was held at the provincial level. There, I met a rival — someone who seemed to be in a phase of life similar to the one I once called my era of nihilism. He wrote under the pen name Parishan (meaning “the troubled one”). He won first place, and I came second — but that competition became the beginning of our friendship.

Parishan had a great influence on shaping the personality behind Fanni that appears in my writings today. Our friendship made my words deeper, more emotional, and more capable of touching the reader’s heart — even though none of my writings were ever officially published.

At the beginning of the 2022–2023 school year, I had already decided to give up my field (mathematics and physics) and take a different path. I planned carefully to take the Art University Entrance Exam instead.

After nine months of hard study and reading 36 art-related books, I finally took the exam and ranked 886th among 60,000 participants. It was a moment of joy — but it didn’t last long.

When my school report cards came out, I realized I had failed five subjects. That meant I couldn’t enter university that year… and that’s exactly what happened.

I didn’t go to university that year — but still, it was a golden year for me. Parishan, who had also failed to get the rank he wanted in the dentistry exam, did not go to university and decided to prepare for the next year.

During high school, I had a close friend named Farzad. In our final year, we grew closer than ever. After the entrance exams, he got accepted into a public university, but our friendship didn’t fade — in fact, we spent most of our free time together. Farzad also played a key role in shaping who I am today, and our friendship still continues to this day.

2024

That year, while all my friends went off to universities, I started working at my father’s store. At the same time, I devoted myself more to writing heartfelt reflections — and it was during that year that my personal writing style finally took form.

For the first time, I had enough time to plan my future seriously. It was during that same year that I came up with an idea — to start a project related to Web3 and NFTs. (This story has its own adventures, which I’ll share fully in another blog post.)

I began researching and developing the idea until it grew into a large, complete project — one that I still hope to reveal to the world someday.

This one-year chapter ended with my enrollment in the field of Tourism at the University , marking the beginning of a new stage in my journey.

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