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Translation: Sessenol Project Review: Meric Aydonat
Everything started in 1986 in Rome.
In a landmarked square with its Spanish steps,
an international fast food chain
I wanted to open a restaurant.
But the Italians – the locals – said no.
Our cuisine is one of the most famous and best cuisines in the world.
We have our pizzas, we have pasta, we have wine, we have cheese,
we have everything, we have everything.
In this square you can not introduce us to fastfood – which is the same taste all over the world,
they started protesting that you can not offer it to us
Leaded by Carlo Petrini.
And they built giant boats in the squares,
pasta cookies, distributors and winners.
That restaurant did not open.
From this victory, we can say that the slow motion started from this upright position:
Slowfood was established.
Slowfood is an organization with more than a hundred thousand volunteers and members in the world right now.
Slowfood, cittaslow, slow city, slow media, slow architecture, slow agriculture …
Everyone started trying to slow down the world with one end.
How can we live slowly?
I want to tell it today in five perspectives:
By producing, happily,
by claiming our traditions and our history.
He was there at the moment.
to produce.
Producing is actually one of the greatest virtues of man.
We can do incredible things, using the body of our mind.
We built this building.
Aside from this building, we built pyramids.
We have written books that have been read for centuries.
When you listen, people move like this
we are composing music pieces.
We made pictures.
We can produce and do fabulous things.
Although the most important thing in society at the moment is to spend money,
as if to consume
we, as human beings, are actually much more than that.
How can we produce it?
If we can not do anything, we can grow tomatoes in the balk.
How to produce a Balkonda tomato?
How will it benefit us?
We will have the happiness of the producer.
It will reduce our consumption.
On the one hand, and perhaps most importantly,
we will better understand the value of something produced.
We bought a flowerpot, we found a local tomato seed when we said earth,
We erect.
Every day I am polite.
It has grown, it has become seedlings.
When we started to see the little tomatoes, they grew.
Then one morning we went to breakfast without a breakfast,
We cut off.
Mischievous taste, incredible smell …
A drugless, hormone-free tomato …
We could have bought it from the market.
But in this happiness, we could not have the pride of this producer.
How is that gonna hurt the waste?
Think you are in the open buffet.
You should not call it an open buffet.
The buffet is actually a mere square, an enormous personality and character test.
Here you go to a conference.
Sustainability, green economy, solar panels …
Noon; we are looking at the plate
ten meat balls, a sausage tower from here,
the floor is reinforced with rice, we are still trying to get stuffed.
Are we food?
No way, there’s no way I can eat a plate full of food.
Why are we taking it?
There is a lot of emotional ties between us and us.
We take; We’re tired, we do not eat.
But our own tomatoes ” I’ll cut two here, I do not eat. ”
We hope so.
Here I can say that we have a better understanding of something produced, a product, value.
Socialization is a very important thing.
I think socializing is one of the best opportunities; table.
Eat.
Because eating food is just a snack
it is not a caloric intake.
A ritual ceremony; transferred to us from our family,
passed on to them from their elders
an activity, social activity, an opportunity.
We can eat as well: We went to a shopping mall.
Indoor, airless, fluorescent lights,
The fonda is playing a ridiculous music.
A large selection of x menus, we had our food in three minutes.
Can you eat in three minutes (!) Or three minutes?
Can it be prepared for real food?
No way.
It was preemptive.
A food came, I ate.
We were fed and gone without a knife, unpleasant tasteless.
Let’s also think that we ate like this:
We’re home.
We have love.
We’re cooking together.
Alone, the food we eat is a real meal.
I mean, it’s so out of the fad, packed, here are the letters
It is not a meal with four fingers inside.
It’s a real meal.
We know what’s in it because we’re putting it inside.
We are talking on the one hand preparing food:
” Ah, did you put garlic on it?
Aa ours came from Crete and put garlic in everything. ”
We’re starting to share.
We are getting to know each other better
and sitting in the table; ”What did you do today?
What will you do tomorrow?
How do you feel?”
An incredible sharing environment, social environment.
In fact, this is food.
I just can not order the food, I do not take calories.
There is a table we can share together.
We need to sit there and share.
Traditions, customs, history, how can it slow us down?
I want to give him an example.
In İzmir we have Hıdırellez congratulations.
That evening everyone writes his dream, a hope,
smile dibine gömer, throws into the sea.
Fire on the beach is burned, skipped over.
What does this give us?
We are there with the people we do not know; For a better life,
we are looking for a better year.
A smile on everyone’s face …
Already in Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Central Asia who knows how many thousand years,
Who knows where else is celebrated in an activity:
Bahara hello.
Now it has an incredible value to us, our society.
A partnership,
tolerance and partnership.
We are not just Hidirellez according to tradition,
there are many more such traditions.
We will never be as happy as we were when we lost.
Something will always be missing in our society.
For example, the city we live in:
When was it made?
Who lived?
When was the inn where we passed every day?
Why was it done?
What did it do?
We need to know them.
The reason we know them is actually nostalgic, emotional,
I go to the past, not to use a horse cart.
The reason we know them; this city has an identity, a culture, a spirit.
And this soul has many things to give us.
For example, I give an example from Izmir again.
There is a balcony culture in Izmir.
In summer, the balcony is washed, the air cool.
You get out, sit down and eat,
You are offered to eat in the neighborhood.
“Ah, hello!” Your lesson is your neighbor sitting across the street.
” Aa Almancı bought a new car, I do not know what moved. ”
So you are all inside the community.
The public area is actually that balcony.
Now what is it?
Urban transformation is actually what we are causing.
We’re covering balconies.
We cover the balconies because our room grows.
Yes our room is growing but actually our life is getting smaller.
When we become communicative with society,
we are familiar with each other
we are destroying a living space.
Now if we do not know it
we can not have it, we can not protect it.
And when you lose it
we lose too much.
We said to be there at the moment.
What does it mean to be there at that moment?
For example, we play with our children in our salon.
We also covered the balcony.
We are very happy, very spacious environment.
On the one hand, it’s on television.
Here is how many matches, so I will not miss that five-hour lineup
On the one hand we look at him.
Or we went out with our friends.
We will be laughing, we will have fun,
tweet came, how many did i like, mail came, what happened?
We keep looking at him.
We are not there at the moment.
Our mind is somewhere else.
How can I physically be both there and here;
mentally we can not be in two places.
That’s why we have to live.
We do not experience the moment we live, our life,
we need to feel.
It can only come to the ears like something beautiful.
Actually, it’s a scientific fact.
Psychology is a technique used in therapy.
If we go too far into the past, we become depressed.
We could be more precise.
Or we have a lot of futures, we always think.
We become more anxious, more stressful people.
It’s actually very simple.
That’s where we’re supposed to be.
We need to live this moment with our whole self in our minds.
The thing that slows me the most is
It was a 1985 model car.
Both mentally and physically slowed down.
We had a car.
We have a child.
We had to buy another car.
I do not want to spend a lot of money.
I’m against duty, but I have to.
I found a 1985 model car.
Old.
The greatest fear was actually a little bit;
In traffic I am a little traffic monster.
Let’s bury him,
he passed me, I will pass him,
fast going,
Horn it, horn it …
Incredibly stressful!
I’m not satisfied either, I’m not happy either.
I drive this way.
I said I’ll take this car now,
I’m going to be very stressful,
I can not catch up.
But something very different happened.
I use the car, there is no stress.
Incredibly relaxed.
I take out the arm, I open the music.
He has passed me, I have not had a chance to pass him by.
When I drive a car that’s fast,
traffic monster is driving this car while driving
as if I use a boat on a boat tour in Marmaris
such a comfort, a slackness.
I’m so happy.
I said, what could it be?
How can this be the difference between the two?
At that moment I understand that; using a car that has the potential to go fast
society, system, life,
What do you say in your name, it speeds you up.
Hurry up, hurry, it’s past you, it’s late …
But since I can not go technically fast with a slow car,
this print is rising from above.
I have to go slow automatically.
This is actually the case in life.
Whether we like it or not
we are accelerating even if we do not know it.
Play more, earn more money.
Here she took the phone and you take it,
you have renewed that car and you too.
Quick, quick, quick …
But if you live slow and you live fast
the same point we will eventually reach.
We come at the same time and have a limited time.
Being happy in this limited time,
to live more slowly, to live a better life.
Why do not we just do that?
So the day that we live will never come back.
That second go is over.
Could we live this limited time better, establish a better world,
can we be happier? Then;
In 2011 we established “Slow Life Support Association”.
Our aim is a little naive, a little childish,
utopian, we want to build a better life.
We want to make a happier life.
For us this way, solution, slow down.
Let’s slow down a bit.
Let’s consume less, produce more.
We are trying to do this because
as long as we live so fast,
we are consuming our time and the whole world, in fact, life.
We need to slow it down a little bit.
We’re working for it.
There is so much that can be done.
It’s just a personal example that I’m talking about here.
Recyclable,
something can be repaired instead of discarded.
There are minimalist approaches; about having very little possessions,
There is a lot to do and these are very simple things:
to produce tomatoes.
These are simple things to do.
A better, slower world is possible.
We need to believe that.
You, too,
We are very happy to help you slow down the world.
Thank you…
(Cheers)
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