English Blog – Part 2Living Without a MapAfter losing a country, life continues—but without a map.The familiar markers that once guided existence disappear. Festivals arrive without joy. National days pass without meaning. Even grief feels out of place, because there is no longer a shared language for mourning.A person begins to live cautiously, as if existence itself has become conditional. Every space feels temporary. Every belonging feels borrowed.The Inherited Silence
English Blog – Part 2 Living Without a Map After losing a country, life continues—but without a map. The familiar markers that once guided existence disappear. Festivals arrive without joy. National days pass without meaning. Even grief feels out of place, because there is no longer a shared language for mourning. A person begins to live cautiously, as if existence itself has become conditional. Every space feels temporary. Every belonging feels borrowed. The Inherited Silence One of the deepest consequences of losing a country is the silence passed on to the next generation. Children grow up sensing a loss they cannot name. They inherit nostalgia without memory and grief without history. Parents speak of the past in fragments—half sentences, interrupted stories, long pauses. The children learn early that some questions should not be asked, not because answers are unknown, but because answers hurt too much. This is how loss becomes intergenerational. Memory as Both Shelter ...