Tag: Life
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35 Years after my Birth
I wrote this last year and want to share it as it is even if it is 35 years after my birth. How beautiful were the days when we had no responsibilities. All those moments spent staring at our hands, the days we played with our feet. Our only concern was food. Sounds used to…
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Understanding Modern Phone Habits: A Cultural Perspective
Do you remember rotary phones? We used to look up the number in the phonebook or enter it from memory. We lined up a series of digits one after another. The phone was fixed. If you didn’t catch it, you had no idea who was calling. Sometimes we ran to pick it up, sometimes we…
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Finding Meaning in a Life of Migration
I carry within me a constant urge to migrate. I don’t know if it’s an escape from myself, or simply the thrill of starting over again and again. Would I be content if I were a bird, free to fly wherever I wished? There was a time when travel felt simple—when I could just enjoy…
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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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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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Why Intelligence Doesn’t Guarantee Success
Why Are Smart People Not Always Successful? Lately, I’ve been seeing this question pop up quite frequently. Most recently, I stumbled upon it again online forums, and out of curiosity, I decided to check out what people were saying. It was nothing short of a comedy. Some claim that all successful people are intelligent, while…
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How to know yourself-79: The Final
The End of a Journey — Reflections and Closing Thoughts I’m sharing the final post in this series, bringing this journey to a close. The whole series you can find here: How to know yourself – bahadirhancicek My initial reason for starting this series was to ask myself these questions, reflect on what they really…
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How to Know Yourself-78: Embrace Change Today
A New Year’s Mindset — But Why Wait for a New Year? Even though this post’s title refers to the new year, the new year is still months away.But I chose this framing because we can treat any day as a new beginning — and because we’re approaching the end of this self-discovery series. I…
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