A Romantic Evening in Ä°stanbul
Imagine the following: you are greatly in love with a young woman who is 20 years old (you are 23). You love each other to death and know that the only thing you want to do with the rest of your life… is to spend it together. Imagine that you both believe that the two of you were made for each other.
Imagine that the girl is Turkish and you are Dutch. Imagine that the love you feel for each other makes it possible to have a relationship while the two of you live thousands kilometers away from each other – and you can only visit each other a couple of times, a couple of weeks, per year. Imagine that, although it is difficult, extremely difficult and that, although your heart is broken every time you say goodbye to each other, you can overcome all the pain in the world because your love for each other is so big.
Imagine that.
Now imagine that, one night, on Tuesday August 7, 2007, the two of you go to a place in İstanbul called Ortaköy (also see image above to see what it looks like by daylight). You are the Dutch young man. You have something in your pocket: a small, very small, box. The two of you go to Ortaköy walking hand in hand. You kiss the girl you love on her forehead and on her cheek. You look her in her eyes and tell her how much you love her and how happy she makes you.
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9 Responses to “A Romantic Evening in Ä°stanbul”
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
Congrats, Mike!
Is Sema the gal?
Congratulations!
OMG! That’s great news! Congratulations to you both!
Thanks to all of you for the kind words, we greatly appreciate it.
Dan: no, Sema is her sister.
Having offered my congrats on MVG’s blog, another thought struck me in reading his TMV post above…
Initially, on reading the opening lines, I thought this was going to be a story of intolerance and tragedy, as so frequently we see in the media today. I wonder if anyone else had that initial thought?
I was thus incredibly pleased and surprised as I clued in, but upon reflection struck by how exceptional such stories of bi-cultural connection are in the media today.
In the UK there is certainly a preoccupation with cultural divisions (perhaps a backlash over the Beeb’s long-time politically correct ban on honest reporting of multiculturalism). But daily life is filled with people from different cultures meeting, falling in love, and creating their own realities.
A wonderful story, and a very welcome change from the MSM norm. Thank you for sharing it, Michael.
Is there a date? Would it be a non-denom ceremony, or a civil one? Or mixed?
Congratulations, Michael!
Way to go for both of you.