The oldest inhabitant of the Tuzla region Halil Sarajlic with the family is supported by 207. Bajram

Halil Sarajlić from Srebrenica is the oldest resident of Tuzla Canton, and probably even wider. She is 104 years old, and for her, she says she feels like she's 40, she just no longer has "mood security" as she moves and scares her not to fall.

Although it is rare for someone to experience his age, Sarajlić's health is great. Vitalan and learned to work, it has almost cut wood, and although it is not difficult now, he says, now he mostly only agrees. In the house where he hosted the Anadolu Agency (AA) team, the story has come to pass, almost thirty years ago. His "age" represents one's life, and very seriously, describing younger than himself, those who have experienced 80-90 years, Sarajlić says that all of them have "resurfaced, beaten, scratched and barely walked".

Everyone had their debts

Unlike those "younger ones," he is like the previous 92, which he clearly remembers, and Ramadan has gone without a doubt. He says he started to age at 11, and the question of whether he was, with regard to his years and the heat these days, was a bit harder than Halil was almost offended. With a smile, he told us that he had long lived in his life, even when he was in serious farming jobs. Then it says, as no one liked every drop of water or coffee that he likes to drink once a day.

- I ran and worked, fell asleep and everything and it was not hard for me. And how would this be difficult, in the shade, such a food, such a bed? What will be difficult? A fool, and if it's hard, I can not tell. Not all equal. It is difficult for some of them, says Sarajlić. He was born March 2, 1914, and was recorded in the birthday of December 12 of that same year, and is dated in his documents. He was born in Babunovići near Srebrenik, more precisely in the Sarajlići hamlet, as a middle of ten children, of which today none are alive. The household functioned by having each family member and carrying out their debts.

"The children kept cattle on the fields and the forests, and the older ones digged, gossiped, scratched the grain, and made wheat with horses. Ogli zemlja, hit in the middle one koc and two more horses. Then rope and dive those horses, spit, and they bend, and when the horses stop to cool a little, we get caught and then shake the wheat - he describes Sarajlić's way of wheat as he was a boy.

She did not go to school, and life, she recalls, was very difficult. Parents and children were more hungry than sites, and better lunch in this 12-member family could hardly afford even for Bajram. Now, says our interlocutor, a lot different.

"And when Bajram, when the meal is, is better now than it was for Bajram," Sarajlić says.

Warmly welcomes guests

Growing up in disrespectfulness and great shyness, Sarajlić says that as a child, understandably, he did not have any Bojana clothing. It was rare to say that something new was bought or stuffed, and clothes and footwear were inherited from the older brothers. That's right, everybody. The families were multiples, and it was not a small thing, she said, providing food and clothes for one child, let alone ten.

- I had maybe two or three shirts, or sometime none, and now it can be, I have 20. And my shirt, my panties and so on all the dresses I might never wear, and I'll die. That's the difference - says this modest old man.

The times are said to have changed, and it is best, he points out, at the time of "Yugoslavia", although religious gatherings could not be held at that time. But, as a believer, he points out, no one has defended himself to go to the mosque, nor to mark the Muslim holidays. Sarajlić this Bajram, 207th, is engaged in a family environment, with one exception: although he previously liked to go to the guests, to visit his relatives and friends and to socialize, he no longer goes anymore.

- I can not go anywhere anymore. As this leg "broke" in three places, I can not go anywhere. There are ugly stairs, so I'm afraid I'll fall again and sneak my leg completely and then I'm done. That's why I do not go to any house, but whoever can come to me comes here. I can not go down the stairs - concludes Sarajlic.

• 25 Jun, 2017
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