Istanbul: IG @sonatatoyan April 2015
I just walked out of my workout in #istanbul ... Thinking about the power of eye contact, when we engage and look into the portal that leads to the soul of another human being... And I walked into a Starbucks, to wait for my friend to pick me up ... With my broken Turkish I start to order a cake and coffee and the young man (handsome,hipster looking) asks me where I am from ... For the first time here I just say, "I'm Armenian. "He stops. Looks into my eyes and says, "I love Armenian people and I love you. I believe so much in the#ArmenianGenocide and I am so so sorry for what happened." For not a single moment do our eyes part and mine fill with tears at the same time his do. He takes my hand and just hugs me ... A young man I had met not 3 minutes before, and we are holding each other and crying ... He buys my coffee and we exchange info ...
We are here to love each other. All of us, always ...at every moment there is opportunity to engage, to look , to see ... To connect and love ...
Let the breaking open of my heart continue and continue and continue every step I take on this earth ... I am grateful for all of it ...
I just walked out of my workout in #istanbul ... Thinking about the power of eye contact, when we engage and look into the portal that leads to the soul of another human being... And I walked into a Starbucks, to wait for my friend to pick me up ... With my broken Turkish I start to order a cake and coffee and the young man (handsome,hipster looking) asks me where I am from ... For the first time here I just say, "I'm Armenian. "He stops. Looks into my eyes and says, "I love Armenian people and I love you. I believe so much in the#ArmenianGenocide and I am so so sorry for what happened." For not a single moment do our eyes part and mine fill with tears at the same time his do. He takes my hand and just hugs me ... A young man I had met not 3 minutes before, and we are holding each other and crying ... He buys my coffee and we exchange info ...
We are here to love each other. All of us, always ...at every moment there is opportunity to engage, to look , to see ... To connect and love ...
Let the breaking open of my heart continue and continue and continue every step I take on this earth ... I am grateful for all of it ...
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