{"id":281916,"date":"2026-01-25T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=281916"},"modified":"2026-01-25T06:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:30:29","slug":"ask-yourself-if-its-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/ask-yourself-if-its-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Yourself Is it worth it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a geography of migration.<br \/>\nHere no one dies where they are born.<\/p>\n<p>My father was born in Sivas and died in Istanbul.<br \/>\nMy uncle was born in Sivas and died in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a \u201cminority issue\u201d.<br \/>\nThis is the fate of everyone living in this land.<br \/>\nMuslims and non-Muslims alike; Turks, Kurds and Armenians alike.<br \/>\nBecause this geography does not hold you, it pushes you.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of years of civilizations<strong> \u201cwe are the owners of this land\u201d<\/strong> He said.<br \/>\nThen they became cemeteries.<br \/>\nThe land is gone, the claim is gone, the people are gone.<\/p>\n<p>States thought they were permanent.<br \/>\nBorders were drawn, flags were hung, speeches were made.<br \/>\nBut man was displaced again.<br \/>\nBecause the order here was established not to make people live, but to rule.<\/p>\n<p>Today I am 58 years old.<br \/>\nJust yesterday I remember the mischief I used to do in primary school.<br \/>\nThe thing in between <strong>\u201clife\u201d<\/strong> It isn't;<br \/>\ndebt, fear, obedience and waiting.<\/p>\n<p>What have we produced?<br \/>\nWhat did we leave?<br \/>\nMost of us just survived.<br \/>\nIf we're lucky.<\/p>\n<p>Cemeteries <strong>\u201cvery important\u201d<\/strong> full of people.<br \/>\nThey all had unfinished projects, unfinished cases, unfulfilled dreams.<br \/>\nBut the state continued.<br \/>\nThe system worked like clockwork.<\/p>\n<p>Like military service<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cIt will be over\u201d<\/strong> They said.<br \/>\nMy military service is over, 30 years have passed; military service is still not over.<br \/>\nBecause it is not the individual, it is the mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>The world is spinning.<br \/>\nThe system is working.<br \/>\nHuman beings are being ground.<\/p>\n<p>Our fights, our ambitions, our egos...<br \/>\nWe think it's all ours, but most of it was taught to us.<br \/>\nWork more, consume more, shut up more.<br \/>\nEnd life while postponing happiness.<\/p>\n<p>We go to the cemetery every week.<br \/>\nWe pray for him in his forties, in his 40s.<br \/>\nBut we do not question the order that makes the same cemeteries grow every day.<\/p>\n<p>Let's do a simple experiment:<br \/>\nLet's put our lives in a plastic bag.<br \/>\nArrogance, fear, greed, silence, wrongs...<br \/>\nLet's mix it.<br \/>\nCan we bear the smell?<\/p>\n<p>It is not worth it.<br \/>\nBut in this geography <em>\u201cis it worth it\u201d<\/em> who asked, \"What's going on?.<\/p>\n<p>Because this land<br \/>\nnot peace, but conflict;<br \/>\nnot with justice, but with power;<br \/>\nIt was governed by need, not by people.<\/p>\n<p>That's why it's Sunday.<br \/>\nEnter the cemeteries.<br \/>\nVisit old people's homes.<br \/>\nAnd think about this:<\/p>\n<p>For whom this order lives,<br \/>\nWhy do we just die?<\/p>\n<p>Good Sunday to everyone.<br \/>\nPeace be with you.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cemeteries are full of \u201cvery important\u201d people. 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