Life is a Fairytale, One Understands It Over Time
When I insisted and insisted, "Oh, how do you not know how old you are? Old people definitely know fairy tales," he would sigh deeply and turn to me and say, "Oh, child, it feels like I was born yesterday, I myself have become a fairy tale, I can't remember it."
I am also the grandfather of a little lady. The feeling of being a grandfather takes you back many years. I go back to my own childhood every time I hear that four-letter word. My memories come to life before my eyes, one by one. Like you, I had Grandfather Hüseyin, whom I loved very much and who adorns my memories. When I said to him, "Tulu, grandpa, tell me a story," he replied, "I don't know any stories!" he would say. When I insisted and insisted, "Oh, how do you not know how old you are? Old people definitely know fairy tales," he would sigh deeply and turn to me and say, "Oh, child, it feels like I was born yesterday, I myself have become a fairy tale, I can't remember it."
Yes, friends, I understand my deceased grandfather better now. Because now I'm close to his age. It's almost time... Even though time passes, only his story remains. Life is truly a fairy tale that is impossible to get out of. It only has a beginning and an end. What happened between them happened in the blink of an eye. Okay, maybe you can understand the taste and salt while you are alive, but it passes so quickly and changes so much that you cannot even realize whether what you see is real or a dream. This weekend, I feel these feelings more deeply, as if I were experiencing that moment two years ago when I became a grandfather. This is how the order was established. The divine power wanted the life story of human life, perhaps of all living things, to end like this. He keeps people alive by always directing them to the future, to a tomorrow that he embellishes with the expectation of the desires he always wants to achieve. How long he will live is just a huge mystery hidden within every life. Believe it or not, this is a reality.
Ultimately, everyone's story lives and ends in their own book. That life migrated to eternity like "Once upon a time" and flew away into the unknown. This wheel of revolution continues to spin in its own direction, with the same tempo, without any interruption. Some people accepted this as fate, some as fate, and some as death. Weren't we all children just yesterday? Now some of them have become grandfathers like me! We would feel so strong and safe, right at our mother's and father's knees, leaning on their warm backs, right? Then we realized that we had become mothers, fathers and today grandfathers.
Meanwhile, the years passed with dozens of bitter and sweet events. Then we lost our grandfather, mother and father one by one. We had now grown up and become self-sufficient parents. When we thought about it this way, we could now see the future more clearly. Because we now felt in our veins that this dream was an ongoing cycle. I know it's sad. But unfortunately, this is the reality of being human and living. There are many surprises that the world offers us...
Look, what is left that we haven't experienced in this short life adventure? During the relentless epidemic called Covid, dozens of happy and sad events took place in our society. We were unable to celebrate days, weeks, commemorations and celebrations, especially national and religious holidays, and were confined to our homes. For example, we spent a Mother's Day at home during this epidemic period. I witnessed the feelings of most of my friends in those days, while they were locked in their homes. Many of them had posted photos of their mothers in the groups we communicated with or on social media. They tried to reflect their childhood photos and memories of those beautiful days when their mothers were knee to knee with them, full of love. I'm sure they all became children at that time. It was hidden in the words they wrote that they delved into the spirit of that day. Most of them say, "When did all these years pass?" he said. Oh my dear brothers and friends, is there anyone who successfully passed the test of life and graduated? So who can finish that school? Can you achieve your goal? Who can survive in line with their own decisions and future plans? I don't think so. But unfortunately, if there is any, they are very few. I don't know if this is called fate or a twist of life. All I know is that whatever he wants happens. It's obvious that it doesn't really matter what you or I want.
Today I felt like writing such an article. Believe me, I cannot analyze my feelings adequately right now. I feel incredible lightness in sharing my feelings by just commiserating with you, whom I know and who are good for me, and that I have the same feeling as most of you.
One day, you will tell your grandchildren what my grandfather Hüseyin told me. “There is nothing to tell, it feels like I was born just yesterday!”
with respectful love
