Rojbash![1]
It has been almost one year that i am working for couple of hours a day during the week in an Italian restaurant run by a Kurdish man whose name is Murat. I simply call him “Murat abi” (“abi” is the turkish word for expressing your respect to someone (man) who is older than you). In another words, he is my boss. But for me he is a friend more than a boss.
He has been living in Sweden for 17 years and doing the restaurant business. What impressed me about him very much is that I really admire of him being loyal to his work hours. He wakes up every day around 5am and works till around 9pm. It is amazing to watch his performance while never seeing him with any indication of being tired, and always welcoming the customers with a lovely smile.
Along with his extraordinary performance, he reads several books on the bus, or during a small pause. He has a very strong intellectual capacity and showing his interest many times that how much he wanted to study sociology or to involve directly into political organizations. He feels the pain of innocents deep in his heart and stands strongly against cruelty wherever it comes from.
I remember once when one of our common friends saying that she was going to a dance course. I asked that friend which type of dance it was. When she said that it was “House Dance”, it made no sense for me since I had never heard about that. Then after came the poetic description of the dance by “Murat abi” to make me have a sense of what it was.
Think of a tree during the fall when it’s all leaves are yellow.
Then one of the leaves falls slowly backwards and forwards from the sky through the ground.
This is what they called“House Dance”.
I loved his description, and I loved very much how someone who seemed to be so busy with his work can be aware of the details hidden in the life from an artistic taste.
If you pass through Stockholm anytime, be aware that there is a place where you can have a very small talk with lots of joy and unforgetfull memory. And of course, needless to say: you will love his menu very much.
“Hejdo”[2]
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