The Polar Express-4
A retrospective writing to illustrate as a metaphor that The Polar Express has arrived where it started this journey. 🌟
It's been 4 months since I returned to Turkey. ''How is my country's current situation?'' This is an absolutely different topic, but I will mention it briefly in the following sections.
Based on the calendar, I grew one more year, but this is not the only measurement of how much we do grow. So, I am much more mature now than just one year older version of me (expected to happen), after last year. This is life and it generally takes the form by experiences (number of them, their intensity, and so on). Sometimes external situations you face force you to grow up immediately and fast; as a result, growing two times more than usual is normal. :) I had to grow, I had to expand and redefine my boundaries, and I had to be more flexible to not be fragile when there were plenty of factors outside insisting to stretch me; I then did so -still not enough, though-.
Living abroad means to me; living on my own, trying to overcome the language barrier, figuring out all obstacles, feeling anonymity, not being capable of expressing myself 100%, managing daily life on good days and bad days, and dealing with either minor or major crises, tackling deeply rooted problems causing your personal weaknesses.. yes, never-ending list this is! Notwithstanding, I love living abroad and feeling these emotions, facing these facts from time to time. All these are challenges indeed, but also opportunities to cause you to get out of your comfort zone and jump into life. They say: “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”. Yes, a wavy sea makes indeed a skilled sailor! Correspondingly, as I can say for my all past experiences if I hadn't witnessed what I saw, heard, and learned in these experiences, something would be lacking in my life, I could lack innumerable things. Therefore, I feel such deep gratitude.
As I stated in one of the previous writings, the best part of these journeys is that meeting with new people and sharing a moment or having a conversation with them, and hearing their stories. It brings about a perception (which makes your perspective wider and wider) that life is full of different stories. Each person has their own story and you somehow encounter that person in that story. It is invaluable. Well, there wouldn't be a chance to live all these, if you hadn't ended up there. The moment then becomes a memory through your presence there. That is a good thing about life...
There is a fact that the other thing I love is to roam in the cities which I have never been before and just to explore them in small and not hurry steps as a backpacker. This always makes me feel very free. I hope I'll take countless steps in different cities all around the world in time.
Okay, let's turn to Turkiye. How is living here? No doubt, it is quite challenging in many aspects, for example, economic uncertainty, women's rights, human rights so on and on... What to say... You must have a hope to stick and be resilient; otherwise, the current situation could be a disaster for you. Hence, we here need to find something to cultivate our hope and focus on somewhat good nowadays for brighter tomorrows.
P.S. The main reason I am glad to be here now is to be with my loved ones ❤. Period. Deeply grateful for that, I am also longing and ready to take new expresses going in other directions though. So, let's see what will eventually happen...
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