There is a romance here, but is there a future here? Though it is true that I know a thing or two because I have seen a thing or two, this does in no way negate the application of the adage “ no fool like an old fool” to my character.Ī friend has confessed to me their struggle between the desires of the day and the longings for tomorrow. ![]() How did her job affect her personal life?Īs a father figure to most of the people with whom I am acquainted with in Eskişehir I find myself a witness and councillor to the relationships they are engaged in. I had great difficulty in sticking to the script of my Encounter (the Wall Street English name for the language elicitation sessions we have) and found myself quizzing her as to the nature of her profession: ![]() ![]() I find myself remembering an evening meeting at the school with a student who is a psychiatrist by trade. I am reading Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence slowly and minutely, finding myself disturbed by the plot therein. I am engaged in mental battle with a colleague at work in Eskişehir who desires me to humble myself and apologize to her for a wrong I neither meant nor directed at her. I find myself from time to time in the midst of psychological conflict with a wife who cannot comprehend that my search for personal happiness cannot revolve around being with her constantly, that I must be fulfilled in all the roles a man must do, besides husband. Psychology, not one of my strengths, is a topic on my mind these days.
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