‘I was young then — I could run away’
Lockdown phone calls with pensioners.
“I am old and would prefer to live” — it was a simple sentiment and yet profound at the same time.
“I can’t go there, they are scared of catching the virus too — they are more afraid of catching it from old women.”
Kimet Bejleri, 72And then, to my unrelenting curiosity, he takes a more abstract approach, before telling a proverb.
“By nature I am a little… optimistic, you know? So, I tend to take everything in my stride.”
Anton Çuperjani, 90
Tringë Sokoli
Tringë Sokoli is a journalist and former editor at K2.0 (2019-21). For her bachelor’s degree she studied journalism at the University of Prishtina, and for her master’s she studied public policy and administration at the University of Potsdam in Germany.