Time Is Just An Illusion. What You

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.

The World Does Not Move Through Time As If It Were A Straight Line, Proceeding From The Past To The Future. Instead Time Moves Through And Within Us, In Endless Spirals. Eternity Does Not Mean Infinite Time, But Simply Timelessness.

Father, I Am From A Different Egg Than Your Other Children. Think Of Me As A Duckling Raised By Hens. I Am Not A Domestic Bird Destined To Spend His Life In A Chicken Coop. The Water That Scares You Rejuvenates Me. For Unlike You I Can Swim, And Swim I Shall. The Ocean Is My Homeland. If You Are With Me, Come To The Ocean. If Not, Stop Interfering With Me And Go Back To The Chicken Coop.

Yeah, We Should All Line Up Along The Bosphorus Bridge And Puff As Hard As We Can To Shove This City In The Direction Of The West. If That Doesn't Work, We'll Try The Other Way, See If We Can Veer To The East. It's No Good To Be In Between. International Politics Does Not Appreciate Ambiguity.

I See Two Opposite Tendencies In Turkish Society: People Feel Demoralized, They Lose The Interest In Politics And Retreat To Their Private Lives; Or They Become Very Angry And Even More Politicized, And Radicalized. Both Trends Are Troublesome.