The following three lines of the poem titled \u201cSince I\u2019ve Been Locked Up\u201d, a significant part of the precious complete works of the great poet Naz\u0131m Hikmet Ran, present an effective description of time, years, and the perception created by them.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince I\u2019ve been locked up, the earth has revolved around the sun for ten times,
\nIf you ask it: \u2018It\u2019s nothing to be mentioned, a microscopic time…\u2019
\nIf you ask me: \u2018It\u2019s ten years of my lifetime…\u2019\u201d
\n(You can watch, through the link below, an excellent sound record created jointly by Genco Erkal and Faz\u0131l Say: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FqPOfh-dbFI )<\/p>\n
As we can clearly see in these lines, sometimes \u201cyear\u201d does not have the same meaning for everyone. While one year is a minor thing, an insignificant detail for some, it may be the most important period of time of some people\u2019s lifetimes. As one interesting and fine saying suggests, the pace the time \u201cflies by\u201d at may differ based on the location one is present at. We sometimes use the idiom \u201ctime does not fly by\u201d, depending on our mood in any period of time. As an opposite, we say \u201ctime really flies by\u201d in order to emphasize the swift change the time has. An unlimited number of time-related sayings in Turkish clearly show the unique position and significance that this concept has in the public sphere.<\/p>\n
But where does the meaning of \u201cyear\u201d, a specific period of \u201ctime\u201d having an enormous scope, come from? Is this geographical event, which is called a \u201cyear\u201d in order to manage the world in a better and more systematic manner through a general agreement, really a very significant one? Does it have a certain aspect to be enthusiastically celebrated every year within the context of time\/year, a phenomenon that we have no impact on at all regarding its lapse? Let\u2019s shortly answer that question at the very beginning: Both yes and no!<\/p>\n
Before detailing this topic, it is useful to create a general framework with regards to \u201chuman\u201d in terms of that being the main theme of what is intended to be said. First and foremost, humans are not creatures formed solely upon the combination of various chemicals. We cannot and should not categorically deny these aspects of humans. If we did, we would overlook a fundamental point standing right at the heart in terms of many scientific fields. These are important points that are not to be ignored; nevertheless, one must remember that humans are both these data and are even more than them.<\/p>\n
For instance, it shouldn\u2019t be so easy to explain, through the use of these figures, why a person, whose entire \u201cvalues\u201d are within the ordinary measures\/standards, mentally feel bad, should it? If human is considered only a table or a set of data, if it is considered through an inhumane, strict positivist approach, then we cannot understand the meaning and significance of concepts, such as honor, dignity, humanity, for humans. Therefore, at the end, we would make a fool of ourselves like that famous-celebrity academician who said \u201cIt\u2019s okay for people to eat their excrement and urine.\u201d. It may not be biologically harmful, yet its symbolic meaning power is extremely harmful for a person\u2019s dignity. If we overlooked this issue, we would miss Humanity while talking about humans.<\/p>\n
When considered with this short background, just like humans not solely consisting of various chemicals or data, \u201cnew year\u201d is not a phenomenon to be considered solely a geographical event. Of course, it\u2019s a geographical phenomenon, yet a human is a living being that is able to give new functions to their surroundings and what\u2019s going on around them by recreating those in their minds.
\nThe future tense, which is called a new year, is considered a symbol of the situations, new hopes, new excitements and new expectations, which have not been but are desired to be experienced. This is where its individual and communal meaning lies, beyond being a geographical event that goes on in a perpetual loop.
\nThe endeavors to look for a need for what\u2019s \u201cnew\u201d and for something to hold on to without giving up despite disappointments, defeats, grief, losses, intimidation are shaped by the concept of year, which is the biggest new thing, and become a symbol in which all of those come together. Therefore, while there is not a single negative aspect of a person having fresh hopes on a \u201cnew\u201d thing, it is also a significant factor in that it has a fundamental mission to strengthen a person\u2019s hopes on life.<\/p>\n
It is required to see and understand these humanistic points. If we consider \u201cyear\u201d only a mechanical event between the earth and sun as two planets, then there is naturally nothing to talk enthusiastically, ambitiously or hopefully about it; it\u2019s just a big event beyond our control. Nevertheless, if we attempt to make the phenomenon \u201cyear\u201d a symbol of a starting moment of a new life of the type we talked about, then there are lots of beauties to be celebrated in it. Hopes and being in the pursuit of new things are a significant point that reminds humans of their humanity. Being able to hope is what differs humans from other living beings. Whenever a human abandons the search for new things, only then they start to get lost within the dark labyrinths of a monotonous world. There is no harm in searching for a \u201cnew\u201d and seeing fragments of hope in it; on the contrary, what\u2019s harmful lies beneath the opposite of this.<\/p>\n
Finally, Naz\u0131m Hikmet finished the poem above as follows: \u201cAnd so, for example, me being locked up for ten years, just a small talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
This shows that time\/each and every year is precious, and is nothing to be missed. I wish a new year that is full of hopes and expectations, where we look for and seek to find the better…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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