A MAN'S SORROW CUTS DEEPER

A band of brotherhood...

There is a book of revelations in everyone's life. Whether it pertains to work, friends, or family. Those fortunate come to realize the true meaning of life, and the revelation that it brings. For Sanem and her friends, the book of revelations opened itself on the page of true friendship, and revealed itself in the form of a group of people willing to do whatever it took to save one another...

Sanem looked at Can and the group of her friends that gathered in the garden. They were all so different, all from a different walk of life, all with their own back-story. Yet somehow, someway, they bonded together and formed a union so strong that it was hard to describe by petty words...

Here was Sanem. A woman so open to the light of the world that she recognized the beauty in everyone she met. She was a free spirit, a kind soul, who fell in love with a dream of a man who stole her heart even before they knew each other. That same man who filled her soul for eternity and stole her heart, also stole a year of her life and dimmed that light in her eyes. But he came back, and filled her life with so much more light and love than he took. For she realized that life without him meant existing without being able to breathe.

Then there was Can. Epitomy of confidence and endurance. He hid his true heart from the world, only to seek the light he so secretly yearned for. He built walls around his heart, but somehow was defenseless against the love and the light of a woman whose only powers were kindness and innocence. The love he felt for her gave him strength to discover himself for who he was, but that same love failed to give him enough courage in his own love for her. He fled hurt beyond words, and he returned only to realize how much their love has grown and bloomed.

Then there was Ceycey. A friend to all but as lonely now as he ever felt. He was Sanem's backbone if there ever was one. And he considered himself as Can's right hand at work. He found love himself, which he feared with all of his heart. He avoided that topic as one avoided fire. By the time he realized how true that love was, his one and only Ayhan left him with a broken heart still hoping for her return.

Muzo was a man who would not need any introduction. He stepped into a room and fully expected all to notice him for the grand persona he was. His view of himself gave him confidence of a peacock and a strut of a stallion. He carried his head high and bowed down to noone. But deep down inside he realized that this group of friends that stood before him cared more for him than his ex-wife Güliz and his mother who chose the lock him out of her home and eventually left him behind.

Deniz was a woman of complex virtue and as compelling as a hidden gem. She revealed little of herself and chose not to speak of her past sorrows. She chose to follow a path in her life that would lead to helping others with past sorrows of their own. She met Sanem at a point in life when they needed each other most, and realized that what she really wanted to accomplish with her life could not be confined to four walls and a piece of a paper that gave her permission to diagnose and treat those with broken hearts.

Bulut himself was a man of secret past, not afraid to step back into who he was to save his friends. He did not need anyone telling him what mattered in life. He listened to his head and his gut feeling when it came to life choices. Though the choices he made caused him to change paths in his life, he regreted none of them for they brought him to where he was now. And he knew he finally belonged, not just to the land, but with those who have grown to appreciate it as much as he did.

Deren, for her part was a woman full of class and poise. She believed in her own abilities and knew perfectly well that she would succeed in everything she put her mind to. She bowed down to no one, and she did not need anyone telling her what to do. Yet deep down inside she yearned for someone who would match her stamina, match her hope for the best possible future, and match her devotion for the work that lay before her.

As for Aziz Bey, he was a man who understood life for he experienced it to the fullest. The ups and the downs. The high and the low. Love for his family, and the loss of the one true love that got away. It was that one true love, pure in innocence and as sincere as they came, that influenced his love for his sons. The fact that his one true love had returned back to his life made him realize that a second chance at love that lifts up the heart should never be wasted.

And as for Mihriban, she held it all in her heart. She saw so much of herself in Sanem and her purest of hearts. She too lived by her heart. Trusted it above all. The love she held within for her Aziz Bey proved stronger than time, and stronger than hatred of those who dared to come between them.  She loved him forever, and forever she would...

So their friendship has grown, and together they vowed to forever be held by their secret bond. Come what may, they would stay together. A band of brotherhood bound by friendship and faith in one another. They vowed to protect the land they stood on as much as each other. The words they have spoken flew up to the skies, and fell deep down to their souls. And they knew that those words, pure in their form, encompassed all of their feelings and hopes for what was to come...