Father, I Am From A Different Egg

No Matter Who We Are Or Where We Live, Deep Inside We All Feel Incomplete. It's Like We Have Lost Something And Need To Get It Back. Just What That Something Is, Most Of Us Never Find Out. And Of Those Who Do, Even Fewer Manage To Go Out And Look For It.

Stories Cannot Demolish Frontiers, But They Can Punch Holes In Our Mental Walls, And Through Those Holes We Can Get A Glimpse Of The Other And Sometimes Even Like What We See.

The Past Lives Within The Present, And Our Ancestors Breathe Through Our Children.

We're Stuck. We're Stuck Between The East And The West. Between The Past And The Future. On The One Hand There Are The Secular Modernists, So Proud Of The Regime They Constructed, You Cannot Breathe A Critical Word. They've Got The Army And Half Of The State On Their Side. On The Other Hand There Are The Conventional Traditionalist, So Infatuated With The Ottoman Past, You Cannot Breathe A Critical Word. They've Got The General Public And The Remaining Half Of The State On Their Side.

Loneliness And Solitude Are Two Different Things. When You Are Lonely, It Is Easy To Delude Yourself Into Believing That You Are On The Right Path. Solitude Is Better For Us, As It Means Being Alone Without Feeling Lonely. But Eventually It Is Best To Find A Person, The Person Who Will Be Your Mirror. Remember, Only In Another Person's Heart Can You Truly See Yourself And The Presence Of God Within You.