Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Turkish Airlines, A Memory of A Logo

March 27th, 2018

Today’s language course is over. I headed to the subway by half-running as always. No delay, I wait for the subway in the cold weather for two minutes more. I step right and left to not to freeze. Cold wind slaps to my face like little knives. A plane, with Turkish Airlines logo, flew through the sky. I had a time travel when I saw the logo. The plane disappeared, and left a grey cloud of thoughts.

It reminded me that I was far from my home country for more than a year, and for so much long I will be. The stell stiches I’ve made to stand straight and be far from all troubles, broke into small pieces. To be the hero mother of my little children, I didn’t cry for a year. I promised my heart to stand straight. But this view, meant ‘game over’ for me... Recalling the song ‘’Birds may fly above us, one of their feathers may fly in front of us...’’ the plane took me here flew above. I was alone with my heart. It was time to cry...
 
The thoughts the plane left me, rained in my mind drop by drop.

Who is in that plane? Women? Yes, of course women... Women continue the life stories. And the stories contiune women lives.

Even if the life fights with them, they are targetted to win what they deserved.

My deserve is to live the hejira I have been longing for. I try to exchange sorrow with happiness by playing with my children. They are asking their father, grandmother, and Turkey... Not all the women are lucky. Some collect food from trashes, some try to earn money in all impossibilities, some look for ways for their children’s cure... Women, on the ways of prisons, to visit their husbands, despite of 10-hours of tiredness, they go to kitchen, and cook. Seeing their husbands, causes them to lose their energy, leaving their one side with their husbands...

And also, women, lost their life-long friends. Burrying their pain with their husbands, and turning into a bunch of mercy for their children. Angels, turning around and sharing kindness.

If you are a woman, you have the work. In war, you think about the hungry ones and feed them. In silence, you organize people and break that silence by clapping your hands cheerfully, singing songs happily. Even in the hardest situations, you take the biggest risks to keep alive. Because life keeps living with WOMEN.

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