‘Today is the feast, wake up early children’

The memories about the feasts are mostly come from our childhood. We live these feasts when we are child… Feasts started with feast shopping before a couple of days of feast. We slept with our new shoes and clothes near us. We got up with excitement, wore our new clothes. Kissing one’s hand, pocket monies, candies, chocolates… These are visible parts of it. These days were the days of children, they got the attention they expect and felt ‘extremely happy’… That day was our day.
Feast was not same at all houses. You might hear voices of happiness and elegiac in some houses. Some of us fulfill one’s longing and some of us feel the pain of losing someone. The important thing is the share pain just as like we do on happiness. This is when real feast is experienced. Pains decrease, friendships increase.
We are the children of mothers who serve the dishthey cook to their neighbors.
When the sun rises at 1,5 spear height, billions hands would beg for and pray with their hearts. Heart doors would be opened for the ones begging for peace, silence and lost ones, “Heaven” would be beg for. How about lost ones?
We also have the feast for lost ones in our traditions; ‘mourning feast!… The cooperation between the ones who lost beloved ones, pains of persons suffering, the struggle feast of decreasing pain…” The first house to be visited on feast is the place of that feast, mourning house.
You arrived the place you want; continue to fulfill longing with your beloved one or experiencing the last feast of the year… Life goes on in spite of everything we experience.
The ones with microphone, or who may reach hundred thousands by a computer, a cliché song, the ones requesting something from you, on behalf of somebodies, for somebodies. There is “mourning” in our country… In many houses, many hearts. This is a ‘black’ feast for mothers, fathers, brides, wives, children, nephews, brothers, sisters… Instead of making something for somebodies, everybody will request something again.
Nevermind requested ones, listen to your heart… Think about children while you sing “Today is feast, get up early kids” and do what you feel in your heart for “mourning houses”… Today is brothership, cooperation day. Their burdens will decrease even if you pray for them, peace winds will prevail under our flag.
We will experience a crowded feast. It will be a feast when we get together with our family, friends and beloved ones under one roof. We requested to get together with our friends with whom we overcame difficulties, shared happiness and pain. There is statement we frequently share with you; ‘life is a deep breath’… So we should share friendship, love and pain to make life more meaningful…
A speaker in a conference distributes a blank white paper and a pen and said the people in the saloon: “I want you write how many springs of your life you have remaining on the blank white paper you have in hand.” No matter it is a quotation from a story I read, I felt depressed and could not write it… I wrote “Who would know the remaining spring or feast of his/her life?”. He continued his speech with a similar sentence…
Which one of us would know how many more spring or feast we will experience?! So enjoy the feast at one breath pleasure. Let them include in your memories just as like childhood times. Remember the beauties of this feast when you get back home. Hope you and people with you an unforgettable feast.