Bajrami was an 86-year-old nobleman (native Tironc) who had ended up in a nursing home.
One December morning he knocked on my law office to consult about the great trouble that had befallen him in the last years of his life.
He was the father of four children, who were married, and had 9 grandchildren.
He had been the owner of one of the most beautiful and oldest villas in the center of Tirana.
At the insistence of the children, the villa was demolished and given to a developer as a percentage for an 8-story building. After completion, his 4 children took the shops as a percentage and rented them out, while their father ended up in a nursing home.
Bajrami had lost his property, he had lost his children, he had lost his grandchildren, and he was even living in a nursing home.
Of course, Bajram's children, apart from their father, didn't even speak to each other. Three of them were divorced and the shops were the subject of a court-ordered division of property with their ex-wives.
Unfortunately, I don't know today whether Bajrami is alive or not, but I remembered his story when I read Tinka Kurti's different stories, but they only had one thing in common: the nursing home.
I felt bad not because of Tinka Kurti's dramatic end, but because of the cynical comments of those who want to politically misuse the great artist's asylum.
Surprisingly, the "tears" came from those who have been spewing bile about Tinka Kurti, calling her a communist or a product of socialist realism.
We grew up with her voice and eyes as children.
For our entire generation, she was like the family man who appeared every Sunday on the black and white screen.
Unfortunately, a large portion of Albanians still do not understand that we live in the century of loneliness.
In Germany, 1 million people or 20% of frail elderly people live in nursing homes as a better alternative to the four empty walls of their home.
Long life is a gift, but also a "punishment" from God.
Long life often confronts people with three challenges:
- death of children
- loneliness
- poverty
The noble and generous Shkodra resident Tinka Kurti lost her son 7 years ago.
Unlike my client Bajrami, who was abandoned and robbed by her children, Tinka was separated from her son by death and remained alone.
Artist Tinka Kurti is an icon of cinema and art.
Anyone in Albania can have the great fortune of Tinka Kurti's longevity, but they must be prepared for the alternative of how they will cope with loneliness.
Loneliness will be the disease of this century, especially for the younger generations who today neither want to marry nor inherit.
Let's wish everyone a life like Tinka Kurti's, but not her loneliness. Although a nursing home certainly remains a better alternative than an empty or abandoned home.
Meanwhile, I wonder why in Albania there is still no party that promises, like every European country, the construction of hundreds of nursing homes for the elderly who don't want to close their eyes in solitude, but with company...?