Category: Life Perspective and Comments
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Gut Feeling
An encounter in an infinite universe…A comfort as if you’ve known each other for years, so natural, so relax…Yet secretly a quiet distance remains. It’s hard to call it a gain or a loss. Neither good nor bad. Perhaps this is exactly what we mean by being. One can feel close without knowing. Maybe not at…
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The Surreal Nature of Grief and Memory
Exactly 21 years ago today, one of the events that changed the way I look at lifeö perhaps the very first. took place. For the first time, I saw how people I had perceived as solid and unshakable in childhood could be completely shattered by an unexpected blow. I saw everyone at their weakest. I…
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Embracing Creativity in Modern Learning
Let me start with the cliché opening: education is the foundation of everything. Education is the solution to all problems. Of course, when you say this, reactions come immediately. Not everyone can be educated, not everyone wants to be educated, it’s not as easy as you think. And that, in fact, is the core of…
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Why We Fear Art More Than Weapons
Lately, I’ve been stuck on the question, ‘What is it for?’ While an irrational prejudice forms about some subjects, for others, it’s not even considered. Actually, by asking this question, we can envelop everything we engage with in our daily lives into a cloud of meaninglessness. That’s why I find it a dangerous question. The…
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How Football Shapes Identity and Community Worldwide
Football Culture Growing up as a child in Trabzon, a city of football, the likelihood of staying away from football was low. And indeed, I couldn’t. My childhood passed by talking about football, playing football games on the computer, sometimes playing football in the street, and later going to indoor football (halı saha) matches. That’s…
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Engineering vs Art: The Battle of Functionality and Expression
No, I’m not going to talk about Leonardo Da Vinci. I’m going to talk more about how far engineering actually is from art. There is an ego that comes with engineering education, and many wrong assumptions that come with it. For example, engineers solve problems. That’s true. And as problems get solved, the ego grows.…
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The Anarchy of Snow: Embracing Winter’s Beauty
Before going to work in the morning, I stopped by the bank. On one side, it was snowing, everything completely white. The ground felt soft under my feet. Unlike the dark winter days, the whiteness brought a kind of brightness, a kind of joy. Photo by Matthias Kinsella on Unsplash While thinking about the beauty…
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Navigating Depression This Winter: Essential Questions to Ask Yourself
As winter sets in, it’s not just the flu that spreads like a virus—depression does too. The walls start to close in on you, the clouds weigh down on you, going to work feels like a burden, and even the simplest daily tasks begin to exhaust you. Add financial troubles and social relationship issues to…
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The Illusion of Autumn
It paints the world in colors, sets the horizon on fire, and makes us believe we’ve reached the peak of beauty.At least, that’s what we think.But in truth, it’s the slowest and most elegant funeral on earth. The trees aren’t blooming, the leaves aren’t shining.They are slowly fading, disappearing.Just like people.Yet unlike our sorrow, death…
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Why Cleaning is a Trap: The Real Cost of Consumerism
There’s probably no activity I hate more than cleaning.A completely useless waste of time. We already spend our days at work, then sacrifice sleep and health to carve out a bit of free time—and filling that time with cleaning feels like the ultimate human helplessness. And no, I don’t mean “if I don’t do it,…
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