Hi…
Sorry that I haven't been updating any of my stories but I haven't really been up to it. The bombing in Istanbul has affected me a lot.
My sister and her husband along with my one year old niece and 5 and a half year old nephew were there, in the airport, but luckily nothing happened to them. But I can't say the same to one of my childhood friends who were killed during the attack. She was waiting for her plane to my father's hometown in Sivas (Turkey) when it happened…
So I'm mourning her and my anxiety is sky rocking right now. Today I sent off my mother and little sister who are also flying to Turkey with the same stop at the bombed airport before traveling to Sivas as well to my baby sister's father's hometown. (My mother remarried after divorcing my father whose Turkish, and so is her new husband.)
Bombing in Turkey is not a foreign thing because there has been a lot cases that hasn't been broadcasted in the media other than the Turkish ones, but this one, the one in Ataturk Airport has me shivering in fright. I have so many family members traveling to Turkey, stopping by the very popular airports in Turkey, and I also have family members living in Turkey (father's side) so it's hurts me to think that something is going to happen to one of them. I am, to be honest, very terrified that something is going to happen again…
So I'm sorry if you're waiting for any updates and I'm sorry for this author note, but I thought I should at least alert you that I won't be updating for a while.
I can't visit my friend's grave because she's to be buried in Sivas, Turkey but her aunt is here in Denmark so I'm going to visit her with some of my friends and give our condolences and just be there for her. The rest of her family is in Turkey and they are mourning there.
I may not be a Muslim despite my father being Turkish (and Muslim) and my mother have converted to Islam, but I want to say that terrorism is not a religion. Turkey is a Muslim country yet they were bombed too.
I pray for every victims parents and give my condolences to them, and I hope that one day people will understand that terror is not a religion, Islam is not the enemy of the public and world. Nor is any other religions for the matter. I respect every religion and their norms and ways. Religion is in fact a very beautiful things though I keep my distance for reasons that are my own.
And I want to also give my prayers to everyone who struggles in the world; be it by terrorism, poverty, injustices, or anything for that matter. I pray for everyone. #prayfortheworld
Good day my friends and I apologize once again.
Till we see each other again.
-Oby Abel-