Memories of A Sanctioned Boy - Part 1 (The Beginning) My name is Amin, and I'm 26 years old from Iran. I wanted to immigrate for studying a Ph.D. degree three years ago; however, I couldn't begin the admission process because of the bad financial situation of my family. So, I stayed in Iran and worked for IT startups as a digital marketing specialist. Iran got sanction by the USA again last year, and the living conditions for Iranian citizens get harder each day. Exactly one year ago, things got tricky here, and our national currency devaluation began gradually. Because of the tough political and economic situation in Iran, our national currency (Rial) lose about 2/3 of its value in the matter of a few months. Just imagine living in a country which you hear bad news constantly every day — no sign of hope, No sign of any improvement in the living conditions of ordinary people. The inflation rate spiked in Iran as sanctions began and we ranked in the number two of countries which have the highest inflation rate list after Venezuela. People lose hope every day, and I'm thinking to myself that human suffering was consistent in history. I think about poor people in World War 1 & 2 and how they lived through those terrifying years. I don't know what is going to happen next, but the situations here reaching extreme points and it means a war. The Middle East always had complex problems through history because of vast oil reserves. I recently read Nassim Taleb famous book "Black Swan" and it scares me a lot. because he explained in his book how black swan events which are rare and low probability events changed history and affected people lives. His book touched my heart somehow and it helped me to understand how the world's uncertainty can ruin people lives. I will explain my living conditions and hardship of living in Iran in my future notebooks. Thank you for reading and helping me to improve my writing.