My very good friend Maryam Elahi got married yesterday and I couldn’t be there, mostly because her wedding was in Mashhad and I was stuck here in Tehran.
I have known her for 6-7 years now (since 2002, if memory serves,) and we have been teammates, classmates and coworkers at one time or the other, and I’m sure she understands that while I really wanted to be there, I really couldn’t. She is one of my best friends, and I hope I have been (and continue to be) at least an OK friend for her.
Here is my most sincere and heartfelt congratulations and merry wishes, for you Maryam and your husband. May you have a great and interesting life together. It’s encouraging (and at the same time frightening) to see another of my friends taking the plunge. Just kidding! May you “live happily ever after.”
(BTW, I’m a bit curious. Is wishing someone a marriage full of surprises a good wish or an ill one?!)
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Maryam Elahi | 26-Sep-08 at 6:19 pm | Permalink
Thank you very much for the warm wishes and sorry for my very _very_ late comment on this post.
It is special to receive such merry wishes from a special friend like you and you are indeed a great friend who I have learned a lot from and I owe a lot to. ICPC, CCC, KOPCS, ENIAC, CSSC, and many many more…, lots of good and sometimes sad memories. I am going to be even farther away from Iran now, but I hope we can stay in touch.
And a marriage full of surprises, hmm, that is a though one! I’d say having happy surprises and challenges is better than a boring life, wouldn’t you agree?