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It is over. He is finally dead. I am a father now. ...

Bugün senden babamı alıyorum. Taşıyamadın babamın ağırlığını. ...

They got in the car, still caught in the flow of their ongoing discussion. His father was at the wheel. He sat in the back seat, quiet. ...

I go again — from myself. Where? Is there a place without you? I don’t want to go from you. ...

Bir çiçekti, yeşerdi dedim. Onun çiçek olacağını bilmiyorduk. Güzelliği bize huzur verdi, Kokusu bizi sarhoş etti. Bilmiyorduk. ...

Easy is cake. Hard is life. ...

Hânım Nenemi ziyaret ettim bugün. Hayallerimde onun yalnızlığıyla buluştum. Evli ve çocuklu değildim; annem ve babam bunun yalnızlığıma çare olacağını düşünüyorlardı. Oysa Hânım Nenem evli ve çocukluydu. Ama eşi, başka dünyalar için onu çoktan bırakıp gitmişti; çocukları da başka dünyalara doğru uzaklaşmışlardı ondan. ...

I would like to read Abraham’s story in the light of the Buddha’s teaching, and I would like to understand the Buddha’s teaching in the light of Abraham’s story. I will also sprinkle a bit of Western philosophy. I am not well-educated or deeply researched on any of these topics, and I do not want to say anything offensive. I simply want to scratch an itch of mine. Let’s see how this goes. ...

It was Friday afternoon, and I was struggling with a technical issue. There wasn’t an apparent error in the execution of the code, but it was not producing the expected result. I spent hours debugging the problem, and by the end of the workday, there was still no solution. I decided to stop working on it and continue on Monday. ...

It was early in the winter morning. In other words, it was quiet, dark, and cold. He felt the urge to be on the road. What else could he do? He wanted to feel a bit of warmth inside him. His car was going to be that warm corner in the outside world, and if only he had a button to generate some warmth within himself. ...