Everyone who behaves sincerely reflects his/her internality to his relatives … Whatever we want to experience, we turn to it; However, the effects of the events happening around us and people who living around us also interfere to our steps. The positive contributions we receive come from the good people. It may not be right to label people clearly as good and bad.
Today, while we realize our thoughts, we form our future, and what we will leave to the past … Therefore, our most important goal in life should be to learn to live with the awareness of the “moment” by taking lessons, by accounting for what happened. When planning our lives, it is very important to ensure that our personal development is realized first.
After all, whatever we sow, we reap, “what do we want to sow, why do we want to sow, what do we hope to reap?” We have to search and learn the answers to their questions.
Sometimes, a person we think is good can harm us consciously or unconsciously, or when we get to know someone we think is bad, we can see that he is different. It is also a fact that how much do we know what we call good or bad, and according to whom or what?
“What I benefit is good, what is harmful is bad.” is called. Another generalization is: “I, the way I see me, let others see me as I do.” However, unfortunately, everyone sees the other with their own view, as they look from their own window.
We ignore the flaws of our loved ones, and the flaws of those we do not love grow in our eyes. At this point, we see how much our emotions affect our perspective. Ambition, jealousy, desire, power struggle, feeling of competition, rush of defeat, falling into pessimism and our fears … These are the emotions that make human beings human; But it is these feelings that unfortunately dehumanize the ego and turn it into passion. If emotions and passions begin to govern our approach to life and people, more and more the dark side within us becomes exposed. With every mistake, the more the evil is fed and become the stronger the evil …
Unfortunately, when the balanced emotions that make human become captive to the dark forces of passion, man has already lost the light that illuminates his inner and disappears in the darkness of his passions. The way to get away from these negativities is to educate ourselves correctly, to be informed, to direct and to learn to develop awareness and conscious behavior.
If you move away from those who prevent you from reaching your goals and discourage you and choose the path of improvement in the areas you are interested in, your ability to read and observe will also improve your ability to synthesize and analyze. At this stage, your ability to distinguish the important from the unimportant increases, too. Cause-and-effect relationship, the ability to establish connections between different disciplines takes you to higher levels in thought development. For example, if you can comprehend how a physics theory is reflected in the literature with Tanpınar’s poem “Time in Bursa”, you can also reach creative thinking.
Bulut Atlas is one of the most impressive films that I have seen to date and that includes these topics. A few phrases that remain in my mind from the movie are as follows: “Man is not the ruler of his own life from his mother’s womb until he dies. His life is connected with the lives of others. What we live today is the result of what we have done in the past. He who does good meets good.” At one point in the movie, to his son-in-law and his daughter, who chose to fight for the emancipation of slaves, not money, the rich slave trader says: “There is a whole order; with what you will do, you will only be a particle in the ocean …” The groom replies: “Does ocean not consist of particle?”
If we can realize that thinking that every thing we do and our thoughts exist in the universe, we will find us at some point in our lives, and if we can understand the importance of creating life with conscious, correct, beneficial choices for ourselves and humanity, we have also realized our personal development.
Ozden Aykac
