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Silent train
- Unfortunately, no one had waited for him in Germany.
- After one year of unsuccessful searching, his father took care of things.
- He was put into a job training to become a ticket officer for German Railways.
- Certainly the last thing he could have predicted to happen.
- Just like what had occured one year, five months and three days ago.
- There was hardly a job in this world with the opportunity to meet as many people as he did.
- A gorgeous young woman, leaning with her head against the window to get some sleep.
- A man, holding a cup from Mc Donald’s in his hands.
- “Nice to see you” has been printed on the outside.
- But people don’t see each other.
- They just see their mobiles, their tablet PCs, but do not look at each other anymore.
- At least not the way he does.
- Five years back, he could tell by observing what people were interested in.
- From the tours he was doing he could tell what the current bestsellers were.
- Today, five out of ten people in the cabins are busy with their smartphones, busy in their own world.
- He has been a ticket officer for nearly a decade here in Germany.
- He grew up in a small village in Kurdistan with an absent father.
- When he was three years old, Baba got a new job with great earnings, but at a great distance.
- There was a high demand for railroad workers in Germany.
- Although boom times were over, his father still could send more money home than they would ever make from selling olives and pistachios the family grew on the farm.
- In fact, his four younger siblings and he grew up with a single parent, because his mother refused to move.
- A remarkable woman: “Why would I want to sit between concrete walls when I can breathe freely?” while spreading her arms in front of their house door to the wide open country lying ahead, being for the past seven generations in the family’s hands.
- He was grateful growing up independent and with a huge respect for nature.
- He was taught by his grandfather to observe nature, observe and predict.
- A gift, he would use later in his life more often than he could ever have expected.
- Grandpa died when he was 10 years old, and they sold the land.
- His mother couldn’t handle the work anymore and they moved to the suburbs of Ankara.
- He was taught by his teacher to read great books, to read and to understand.
- A gift, he used today more often than he could ever have expected.
- When he became 18, he decided to study English literature in Istanbul and finished with a fantastic master’s degree.
- His father still worked in Germany.
- He had visited him three times.
- His old man didn’t understand what his son was doing or how he would earn money one day.
- He felt like it was time to spend some more time with Baba.
- Taking a language course during his last semester at University he prepared himself for a life in Germany.
- When asking for the tickets, he is still observing: Backpacks stuffed between the passengers’ feet, women balancing handbags on their thighs, businessmen with their laptops, working on their knees and never seem to stop.
- But seeing people with books became quite rare recently.
- Some passengers carry magazines with them.
- Men usually read technical editions or fancy car topics.
- Women prefer lifestyle magazines and enjoy gossip.
- When seeing travel guides, he always feels happy for the people reading.
- Mauritius, the Big Apple, climbing the Alps – there was a lot of inspiration for what he could do. One day.
- Seeing her the first time, he could recall exactly.
- She was sitting in the last cabin with a copy of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway on the way to the main station.
- One year, five months and three days ago.
- He remembered writing a paper about this novel during freshman year.
- He was impressed that someone would read this; in fact, it was the first time he saw this beautifully written piece of an observation of the British society right after World War I on the train.
- He started with her reading Cold Mountain, after seeing it in her hands.
- A bit cheesy in his mind, but still he liked that the couple fought its way to get back together.
- A kind of romantic saga he would have refused to read if it wasn’t for her.
- She would take the train every morning, he observed.
- He sees her every morning, Monday to Friday, at 7 a.m., direction main station, last cabin.
- Considering the clothes, he would guess she works in an office.
- She doesn’t see him.
- Together they got through To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, and Nick Hornby’s Long Way Down.
- For one year, five months and three days now, he imagines himself sitting next to her and tell her his impressions on the way to the main station.
- He has a lot to say to her: How very much he liked her last choice, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
- How he had cried while reading Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
- badada
January 2014
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