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One idea I’ve never been able to accept is the concept of social status . I never understood the significance of this constant race or why I was expected to run just because everyone else did ? From the first day i just took a different path ٫ a simple life on the margins, away from all the noise and competition. By pure chance, I discovered this is a well-known phenomenon. It’s called the rat race

Life is based on the idea of balance between a need and what satisfies that need. True satisfaction should match the pain caused by the need. Hunger, for example, is satisfied with enough food  and anything beyond that becomes a kind of suffering. It is the same with other basic needs like sleep and sex. The philosopher Jalaluddin Rumi expressed this idea in a simple way:"Poison is what goes beyond our need.". This idea of balance can grow into a wise way of living.

I don't particularly enjoy writing. For me, the natural space for ideas is dialogue, like any act of communication. Good ideas are born in dialogue and only later find their way onto paper in one form or another. Ideas flow through oral culture, growing like a small tree. They evolve, change, and adapt as they are shared. Every conversation, every verbal exchange, enriches them, adding layers of meaning and nuance over time. Many philosophers and writers did not practice writing. Socrates, never wrote anything himself. He believed that true philosophy should be practiced through oral dialogue, not static writing. Our knowledge of his ideas comes primarily through his student, Plato. The same applies to both the Buddha and al-Hallaj, Michel de Montaigne (often expressed doubt about the value of writing) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (who believed that words could never fully capture reality.) On the other hand, writing has preserved history for us. Through it, we have captured the past, r...

Lately, I've been thinking about how technology and artificial intelligence are changing our lives. By nature, we want to save time and effort, and there's nothing wrong with that. Tasks that once took a whole week can now be accomplished in just an hour with the help of AI and some knowledge. But I wonder: how will this rapid progress affect culture? Culture is usually a slow, conscious act. We take time to create literature, philosophy, and poetry. Now, with everything moving so quickly, will "fast culture" replace "deep culture"? Perhaps, in this decade, we will witness the end of poetry. It could mean humans becoming more and more integrated with machines. If that happens, we won't feel the need to enjoy culture or poetry anymore ! Will poetry become like an old TV in the corner of our house ; a thing of the past that we no longer use? It's an important question to think about.

The idea of a 'Byzantine debate' does not represent a situation that has repeated itself many times in history. The phrase comes from the Eastern Roman Empire, where the royal court was full of endless debates about theology. What is interesting is that even when Sultan Mehmed II (Mohammed Al-Fatiha) was besieging Constantinople, the debates continued, despite the critical situation. This is why the phrase "Byzantine debate" became famous. It describes a kind of religious argument that never ends. Even today, many societies still live similarly. In my opinion, this kind of endless debate is a form of escaping reality.

We should stop criticizing people so easily. Most of the time, people act the way they do because of the circumstances they are living through. If you had lived the same experiences, faced the same pressures, and carried the same burdens, most probably you would make a similar choice. When we judge others — it's better not to judge at all — without seeing the full picture, we are practicing a kind of (superiority). How much I despise that! Superiority is an ugly thing.