Akhisar, 2020. How are we going to explain the situation we are in to children? As is well known, COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Although the virus reached our country late, unfortunately its effects are being felt everywhere in the world, including here. People have started working from home, some are in quarantine because of their duties, schools have closed, and healthcare workers are isolating themselves at home. Because of social isolation, people...

Akhisar, 2020. This post describes the beginning of the time I spent in quarantine. It is a short account of a period filled with hardship, struggle, experience, fatigue, anger, solidarity and many other emotions. It is the story of a time when I looked enviously at people on Instagram stories watching movies and cleaning their homes under the name of self-isolation. Quarantine aside, having grown so used to adult life, I think this will be a post where I share my thoughts and the feelings...

Royal Botanic Garden / Sydney, 2020. We can't control what happens to us in life. Especially during this pandemic, seeing the whole world going through similar things helps us grasp the idea that anything in life can happen to anyone. From the moment we begin life, we are surrounded by many things, good and bad. In fact, we are living. We can't determine whether we will suffer in life. But we can choose the kind of suffering we will go through. Falling apart after a problem, or growing...

Tilburg, Netherlands, 2016. We are intertwined with others at every moment of our lives. So why, with so many people around us, do we love some people more and never become very close with others, or why does our communication with some people break off after a while? Why are we drawn to some people while not really liking others? Of course, we can say that a choice made after getting to know the other person and learning about them is normal, but what about people we have just met and never...

Quarantine Island / Urla, 2020. Uncertainty is perhaps the foremost of the situations that wear out our minds. In a situation we can't fully understand, whose severity we can't fully know, and in which we doubt the transparency of those in authority, the anxiety of not knowing what we will face wears us down psychologically. Even well-intentioned reassuring statements may not be able to stop the doubt and fear inside us in a situation where we are faced with practices we aren't used to. All...