From Victim To Victor

As recent as the 1900s,  Armenians as well as other ethnic minorities were victims of genocide, starvation, exportation, rape, torture, you name it, it happened. With some cultures, this has been a theme for generations.

Offspring can inherit part of this psyche of victimization which can breed melancholy, depression, fear, inferiority and even dis-ease.

What's the good news? It's not a given. You don't have to travel that road just because its in your past. Look, if I told you 25 years ago that the Soviet Union would break up and numerous free republics  would be born including a free Armenia, a free Artsagh, and you could go there anytime you want... You would have told me I was on drugs. The past does not equal the future.

Simply put, the book "A Perfect Armenian" needs to exist to help further the shift from negative to positive, from loser to champion, from unjust to righteous, from victim to victor.

Did the village of Tchingiler really exist?

Good luck trying to find an old map with Tchingiler on it let alone any of the small Armenian villages in the western provinces of the Ottoman Empire back 100 years ago.

First, I tried the libray, then the internet but came up with nothing. Even all of the Armenian history books that discussed the Genocide. Nothing. Sometimes I wondered if it really existed. One day I asked my father if he had any suggestions. He contacted his great aunt and luckily one of my cousins had an old map both in Armenian and English that pointed out exactly where Tchingiler was.

Of course now there is no village by this name and not even a substitute Turkish village at this site as far as I can see. Probably too small to be rated by Rand McNally. I have enclosed a picture of the map in the "Historic Photo" section of the website. If anyone wants an electronic copy would be glad to send to you just cantact me on the website or email me at aperfectarmenian@gmail.com

http://aperfectarmenian.com/historic-inspiration-photos/did-the-village-of-tchingiler-really-exist/

Last Man Standing

writing to me is about putting emotion on paper

but it doesn't mean anything unless your readers can

feel it

see it

through Their eyes

and through their subsequent tears

wash away the impurities of their imagination