ABOUT SOMETHING

About Something

Feelings like wanting and longing are inherent in our very nature. The loss of these feelings can also be an indication that we will face serious existential challenges. However, if we were to ask how many of us truly want and strive for what we want, I suspect most people don't even want to ask themselves that question.

Everyone has expectations in life, and some take actions based on these expectations. Others consider their expectations sufficient only for their desires and wishes, preferring to leave the rest to the Creator or to the actions of others. We've all heard the adjective "lazy" frequently used in society to describe the latter type of people more succinctly. Moreover, we all know that the number of people labeled lazy is far greater than that of hardworking people. While hard work is a trait that can be acquired, the relatively small number of hardworking people may be due to the abundance of people unprepared for this mindset. Because, by nature, we are more adaptable to the easy and readily available.

It's easy to be lazy. You can blame others or other events for everything that goes wrong in your life. This way, you can consider yourself as having done the best you could and not feel the need to initiate the most difficult personal change.

On the contrary, being hard-working requires always striving, taking risks in life, and exploring different avenues when necessary. Furthermore, in my opinion, one of the most important elements of hard work is not giving up in the face of failure, which is where the most significant difference between a lazy person and a hard-working person becomes evident. Lazy people often use investment ideas to convey their courage and bravery when describing their lives. They want to show that they've embarked on something, that is, that they've actually worked hard. Ultimately, we hear people give up on their ventures, citing poor market conditions, inadequate work from their partners or employees, family problems, and many other reasons for their failure. A hard-working person, on the other hand, deserves to be considered successful, no matter how many times they fail, because they clearly define their goal and try every possible avenue until they reach it.

In contrast, we often don't know much about the failures in the lives of hard-working people. This is because they sometimes try to conceal this, and sometimes they gloss over their failures briefly and without detail. A major failure, expressed in a short sentence, no matter how devastating it may be for the person experiencing it, won't have the same impact on the other person, thus preventing the intended message from getting through. Therefore, successful people generally either use this tactic knowingly or, because they avoid actually confronting those moments, prefer to share these details in a short anecdote.

I must reiterate that one of the most important reasons I began writing was that, at this stage in my life, I wasn't considered successful in any field, so I could more concretely share the failures and experiences that led to success with future, hard-working individuals. I don't believe that reliving the same things over and over benefits either the next generation or the country as a whole.

In this regard, we can be led to believe that some of our achievements are thanks to the West, especially as a result of its recording and transmission of ideas and inventions that were not its own. For example, we occasionally hear that prominent Turkish and Muslim scientists are at the heart of important discoveries and inventions in mathematics and geometry. However, it has often been portrayed that the scientific discoveries based on these foundations were made by foreigners, and even that the scientific advancements underlying the inventions themselves were directly attributed to Western scientists who copied them. Unfortunately, such distortions of information are common in history written by the powerful.

That's why, no matter what we do or how hard we work, if our efforts are clearly passed on to future generations, we will not only facilitate their progress but also have the opportunity to make even greater contributions to humanity. Ultimately, words fly away, but written words remain. Just as failure is inevitable for the lazy, success is equally inevitable for the hardworking. Finally, it's clear that things will be very different when we succeed in inspiring future generations by clearly conveying the steps to success.