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Finding Balance: Managing Stress and Life’s Pressures
I was wondering why I am constantly busy, why I am constantly experiencing moderate stress, and what stress means to me, and I found myself writing here. I guess it’s better than thinking to myself. I am accustomed to a certain level of stress. When it exceeds that level, I consider abandoning my job and…
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Survival as Success
Sometimes I Feel Like We Underestimate Survival When autumn comes, the leaves fall and renew themselves. The tree remains the same tree, but the leaves are not the same leaves. Fruits are born, grow, develop, and die. Just like the world. The soil we stand on remains in place. Don’t look at those who die…
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Understanding Joy and Love in Challenging Times
Yesterday I watched an anime movie: Grave of the Fireflies. It was incredibly touching and profoundly sad. Instead of those ridiculous Hollywood hero movies, films like this should be shown to people who think war is just a game. It definitely tops my list of anti-war films. In short, the movie tells the story of…
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Addressing Global Inequality: The Power of Small Gestures
In 2021, I used my birthday as an excuse to start a small aid campaign. Together with friends, we donated books to a village school in Mardin, Turkey. It was the beginning of my small gestures time to time. Our motivation was justice. Not every child was as lucky as we were. Not every child…
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Avoid These Common Myths About Success
I love this type of content. Look, successful people do this, they reached success thanks to these habits, etc. I’ve listed a few things I found online. Let’s take a look together at how to be successful and how not to be. This article has three sections: Photo by Razvan Chisu on Unsplash Success: First,…
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Success Beyond Comparison: Lessons from Nature
What Would a Tree Say Success Is? What would a tree say if you asked it what success means?What if you asked a stray dog about its biggest dream?Do you think racehorses even realize when they’ve won a race? I often wonder: what does “success” mean to nature? Probably just surviving, reproducing, bearing fruit. Then…
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