Corrected version group 2

Group work

Sanem’s friend’s point of view

It’s a sunny day, so I decide to garden. I’m in a very good mood and I’m enjoying the morning, when my phone starts ringing. I read on the screen Sanem’s name: the first thought that comes to my mind is “is she okay? Did something happen to her?”. In fact during the last therapy sessions she’d seemed worried, as if she could’t remove a bad thought from her head. I hurry to answer, and Sanem tells me what had happened to her during the last hours with a voice broken from crying.

Her day had started with the presentation of her successful novel called “The phoenix and the albatross”. - I’ve read it too, and I can assure it’s a masterpiece! -

Sanem was reading an extract of her novel when she remembered a dinner with Can, where he was telling to some friends how they had met. She tells me she hadn’t got a flashback like that for many weeks, that’s why it upset her a lot. Afterwards she seemed to recognise Can among the listeners. When she tells me this I feel she is starting to cry and I try to assure and convince her to keep talking to process her own thoughts and feelings.

She continues the dialogue: when the presentation had finished she decided to go for a walk to think about what happened. It suddenly started raining and she took shelter in a cinema where the film shown was “The bad king”. At the end of the film she sensed a light coming from the back of the theater, and she instinctively turned back: she saw a figure so familiar that it could only be Can. It couldn’t be a coincidence!

I feel bad for her and I decide to reassure her mentioning a quote from C. G. Jung’s book, that I recently read: “The most intense conflicts, if exceed, leave a feeling of security and calm hardly disturbing.” I suggest Sanem two possibilities: get rid of Can’s memory once for all or give him another chance and try to clarify their conflics. Sanem is finally heartened: she pays attention to my advice and thanks me. I hope she’ll get better so bad!

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After finishing the call, Sanem goes back home and decides she’d go to the pier that same evening to get rid of all the memories about Can and her past: she will finally be free!

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In the evening she goes to the pier and sits facing the sea: the slight movement of the waves and the salty wind bring her to an inner calm. She writes the first sentence of her novel on a piece of paper: she’d always wanted Can to read that sentence, so he’d understand how much he’d changed her entire life: “He left me burned pages with broken dreams”. After throwing the bottle containing the message into the dark water, she feels reborn.

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The next morning Sanem is feeling better than usual, but she understands the symblocal ritual of the night before is useless until she clarifies her situation talking to Can face to face. She returns to the pier and sits, waiting for Can. She is thinking about what to say when she feels a presence behind her back. As soon as she sees him Sanem forgets everything she wanted to tell him. She seems frozen, she doesn’t know what to do; she gets up and starts walking to leave, but when Can calls her for the third time she stops and turns around slowly, waiting for his response. Can approaches her and grabs her wrist, maybe wants to tell her something, but neither of the two finds proper words. She finally asks him why he’s in Istanbul, but he keeps looking at her and doesn’t answer. Sanem in overwhelmed: she can’t do anything but leave, and she feels like is going crazy.

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Sanem is working on some of her parfumes in her garden. All of a sudden Can seems to come out of the blue: he tells her he’s going to leave. Sanem doesn’t know how to react: they didn’t even clarified their relationship. The surprise is replaced by anger. Can is escaping from her another time and she isn’t able to stop him. She can only allow him to take a vial of parfume as a memory. As soon as Can leaves Sanem realizes she’s not ready to lose him again: he may never come back. She runs to the pier, but it’s too late.

Sanem, who is sitting in front of me, starts sobbing desperately. I don’t know how to comfort her anymore, she is truly heartbroken. I am now sure she will never be able to forget Can, and that will be her condemnation.