Perhaps it is because already in this simple act of sharing a meal, they express a longing for a زندگی معمولی, zendegi ma’mouli, or an ordinary life, as articulated in Shervin Hajipour’s Baraye. While I watch Hajipour’s video as well as clips of high school and university students together singing this song of his that he wrote also as their song using their words, I am struck by this: the modesty of the revolution they call for and practice in their acts of defiance.