St. Paulus said: "You gladly put up with madmen, accept me as a madman..."

You know how jesters sneer at kings, and kings laugh. After all, who else is it for them to tease the king?

You know when we meet madmen on the streets, what craziness they do, how many words they say, how much they mock us, but we still laugh!

Today is Eid. But for crazy people, every day is a holiday! When I saw the Eid exchanges on social media and the prayers and good wishes we made for each other, I wished every day was Eid. In fact, my madness has gone through the roof again! Please attribute what I am about to write to my madness! Let me be the crazy one this Eid... Don't look at our Eid wishes...

When you look from a distance; in our daily lives, we are the people who fight and fight, break each other, rob, steal, steal, mock, even in traffic, we are the people who swing baseball bats and gnash our teeth at people we will never meet again after a few seconds...

When our ignorance, our arrogance, our know-it-all-ness is at its peak, we not only steal the morsel from each other's mouths, but also chase after the happiness of people who seem happy...

Nobody produces and thinks for themselves. We all like the easy way, the easy thing, stealing and imitating what someone else thinks and produces. Someone opens a meatball shop, and if it catches on, another meatball shop comes next to it to share the cake. One thinks and designs something, the other changes his initials and grabs a corner... We see life only as eating, drinking, traveling, posing for selfies. We don't care if people are going to build skyscrapers on Mars, let's just steal from each other, we'll get by...

We invent so many craziness every day; now we have virtual aesthetic imitations that we steal from foreign cultures. Lips swollen like drums, eyebrows like my Uncle Osman's, all of us blond, all of us 17 years old. I can't even recognize old friends I haven't seen for a long time when I first meet them...

I'm not even talking about men. They're not my business...

We don't like to read books; we don't need to anyway, it's all there on the internet. It doesn't matter if it is false or fake, information is already cheap and easily accessible. So-and-so celebrity's wife, so-and-so businessman's daughter writes blog after blog, has tens of thousands of followers, we eat whatever they eat, wear whatever they wear. In fact, we go so far in madness and insanity that one day a patient went to my friend, a famous professor in his field, and said, "Doctor, I think I have a narrowing in my aortic artery, could you take a look at it?" My friend was surprised and asked: "How did you find out?" "I looked it up on the internet," she said. "Well, then let the internet do your surgery," said the dear master...

Sometimes, when they come to my pharmacy with a prescription, they ask, and this happens very often. They show the prescription in their hand if they are going to buy it with money, if it is a medicine that is not covered by the state: "Should I buy this, or should I buy this one that my friend recommended?". If I'm in a good mood: "Forget it, how will he know what the doctor prescribed, your friend knows better, take that" and they look at me in surprise. Then they realize I'm joking, of course...

Although we may not see it while we're shapeshifting our madness, our entire lives and future are under threat. Even natural deaths are now precious. Apart from the miserable deaths and murders created by the human species, we all live in danger at every moment. Even spinach is not the same as it was ten years ago, it has no nutritional value. Chickens are not chickens but creatures we have changed, their DNA, the number of wings have changed. We are poisoned by the water. Not to mention the plastic bottles. Our most basic food bread has disappeared, we are eating poison.

While disasters attack from all sides, in a dirty and disgusting competitive environment, we are forcing life to be more troublesome and painful, endangering the lives and future of our children and young people. We are living in a time when scoundrels are at a premium, ambushes, betrayals, betrayals, intrigues and deceit are in vogue, and we are plagued by the troubles we inflict on each other...

Sometimes I feel ashamed to be human. There is no cruelty left for animals, I am not even talking about them right now.

What draws us to this pit of misery? Why these falsities? What is this greed of ours? How seriously we take this life, when we've all gone completely insane...

One day our former Minister of National Education Hasan Celal Güzel asked a madman in the garden of Bakırköy Mental Hospital: "How many of you are there?" The madman replied to the minister: "Forget about us! How many of you are outside?"

Before I forget... I wish you all a happy, peaceful, happy, healthy and loving Eid...

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber