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Barking up the wrong tree
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A few days ago, after several months, I went to Beşiktaş Pier. The day I left Istanbul, I never thought I would ever feel so happy to return. While pouring my heart out to the sea, a scene caught my attention. A not-so-innocent teenager asked an elderly alcoholic (probably homeless) man to give him his bottle to take a sip. The old man agreed and handed it over. The teenager, with exaggerated gestures and intense emotions, told him things like, "You’re amazing, so kind, you’re the real deal, you’re the last true man in the world," and then left. As he walked away, the old man repeated similar phrases behind him. After each sentence, the teenager repeated them back before finally leaving. The last two sentences from the old man went unanswered. The expression on his face and his mood in those final lines—pleading for validation of a false belief and the subsequent despair—made me reflect deeply.

How much that old man and I were alike.

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Friday 01:46 PM, 29 March 2019
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