Murat Abi got covid. Happy Holidays 😊 I have a little gift for you

Hello my dear friend, I’m writing these lines to you on my birthday, while it feels as if needles are pricking my back. Everywhere my body comes into contact, the same sensation is there.

Do you remember? At the end of the emails I used to send you, there was always this line: “I hope coronavirus hasn’t touched your family and your loved ones. I love you very much, see you soon, stay well, always. Much love, Murat :)” 

Every time, I said it sincerely, with the concern and care of an older brother. While I was warning you, I forgot myself; it touched me—and my loved ones. Yes, I’m sick. Your Murat Abi has Covid… and it’s the Delta variant, too. 

I hope my mom doesn’t see this email. I’m not in bad shape; in fact, the first four days were actually very good. Toward Friday evening, my sense of smell disappeared and along with it, my sense of taste. From time to time my nose starts to sting, and then a pain begins to prick at my heart, gently at first, like tiny pinpricks. And that pain lasted right up until I was writing these lines to you; would you believe it, it’s gone now… Maybe opening up like this did me some good.

I tell myself, ‘Let me do something nice for myself let me make a coffee.’ I open the package of the coffee I love so much, the one whose smell always makes me happy; I almost bury my nose in it, and this time I close it again, deeply saddened… No smell. No taste… Meaningless…

Now, because of all this, let me tell you a story:

Once upon a time, there was a very ambitious man who wanted to be rich. For that cause, he even hurt the people he loved the most. He burned and trampled over everything in his path; he worked, he stole, he cheated… In time, he reached the wealth he had dreamed of but along the way, time passed, and he grew old.

One late afternoon, he went to a park and sat down on a bench. At the other end of the bench sat a poor man someone he had once crushed and walked all over, an old friend from the past. This poor man was smiling warmly at his grandchild playing in the park, tossing white roasted chickpeas from his palm into his mouth, crunching them with pleasure. Their eyes met.

With the grace and forgiveness that belong to truly noble souls, the poor man greeted his old friend and offered him some chickpeas. The ambitious man replied:

“I don’t have any teeth.”

Which is to say… if you can’t crack a chickpea and eat it with pleasure, then that wealth doesn’t really mean much at all.

Those who know me meet this, the food that makes me happiest in life is dipping toasted bread into olive oil and eating it.

There is a saying that I place great importance on in life, one I constantly wish: “To do your work with a sense of joy, and to eat with that same sense of joy.” 

I wish you a holiday spent with your loved ones happy, and lived with a sense of joy.🍬 Make children happy, and take good care of yourselves. 

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In the final hours of my birthday, I shared this both on ByNoGame and on my personal Instagram account, by_murat_komurcu

 I’d be happy if you follow me and write to me from time to time. ;)

Yesterday, I spent my birthday away from my son Mavi, whom I love and miss the most. My mom couldn’t come over, but she sent me the pastries she had prepared the night before so they’d reach me on my birthday…
My dear mother ❤️

And really what good is a house if it’s a house, or even a palace, without the people you love?

You can find this post and more personal details about me on my personal Instagram account: by_murat_komurcu.

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