Corner with a Full View

For my geography lessons in school, along with my classmates, I memorized headquarters of all 75 districts. I knew pretty well what it meant to be a "capital" as I was studying in the "capital" city where my parents brought me while still young so that  I could have a "better education". Capital meant having roads, vehicles, electricity, kerosene or gas stoves, lots of people in all sorts of clothes, shapes and sizes, having countless schools, and hospitals, having colleges, electricity and so many shops that it was impossible to count them. The difference between my village and capital was that, it had none of these things - no hospital, no electricity, no vehicle, no roads, firewood instead of stoves, only one high school and no colleges, only one shop, neither such throngs of people but people who I knew who wore pretty much similar clothes with layers of chimney smokes and mud.

"It is incredibly lonely even among people" My 88 year old Grandpa was bent over his 4 months old great grandson-son of my cousin who passed away 2 weeks ago. Grandpa asks the new one, with tears in his eyes, "your grandpa's father- I- am still alive, but where is your father, little one"? Tears didnt come then. They didnt come even when I watched my cousin's 8 year old daughter wait half the night for the "Shaman" to bring her father back as someone had told her that the Shaman had the power to bring him back. She asked an uncle, "when will the Shaman bring my father back?"