KEEP SWIMMING

The figs had not yet grown, but it was the hottest days of summer. It was hot during the day, that's okay, but it was even hotter at night. The air was never cool. High concrete buildings vomited out the heat of the sun all day at night. Moreover, since those buildings blocked all the wind, the leaves were not moving.

Mehmet had watched one of his favourite cartoons with his brother the night before. At this age, probably due to the effect of the heat, Dorry, the blue fish in the film, had been a guest in his dream.

"Keep swimming... Keep swimming..."

Although everyone loved Nemo, Mehmet's favourite character in the film "Finding Nemo" was the optimistic Dorry. He always made him laugh a lot.

He wiped the sweat from his temples and sat up in bed. His pyjamas were soaked.

"What swimming? We are stuck in a tiny room in this heat." he said. The window was open but it did not help. His brother in the next room woke up to the rattling,

- Bro!... he called out, opening the door.

- Dorry was in my dream last night. "Keep swimming," he tells me. It was nice to be a fish in this heat.

- Oh, bro! Good morning to you too!

Mehmet never liked hot weather. He couldn't get up, he didn't feel like going out. According to him, the summer months should not be a time of work, but a time for sightseeing, eating and drinking, in other words, a time of holiday. Since his father was working, they could go on holiday only for a short time, at least he wished the house was cooler. If he could, he would travel having a special air conditioner installed in his pockets. Oh, this heat was destroying him...

Mehmet used to go to his father's office in the summer. He could not understand his father's dedication and discipline. "He doesn't get tired of going to work every day. How can he work in this heat? I think work should stop in the summer and everyone should take a holiday." As much as he did not understand his father, his father did not understand Mehmet.

"What will become of this child, he thinks he will spend a lifetime lying down. He can't get hard at all, look at the weather in summer, cold in winter, rain in spring. He can't do anything at his age. But when it comes to having fun, there is no one more eager than him!"

Mehmet's father knew what would alleviate his son's complaint. "Work..." That's why he tried to get him to do as much work as possible in the office. Cargo work, packing, warehouse counting, cleaning, filing, answering phones, photocopying... That's why every summer, when he first came to the office, his complaining sentences started to diminish over time, just as they say, "Touch one, hear a thousand."

"Don't ask, brother. How can I be in this weather? We've been scorched! But today, thank God, we finished the organisation of the warehouse"

In fact, complaining is one of the biggest obstacles in realising one's true potential. Although human beings act according to the comparisons they have created according to their own norms, the potential of human creation is much more. We can all be one of those people who break world records or exhibit behaviours that humanity will admire. As long as we have strong reasons for it and the determination to keep going on the path.

Experiential Design Teaching says: When you're doing big things, you're guaranteed to slip. What you do now is important. But the amount of slipping is less than the amount of lowering oneself down.

 

Therefore, it is not the difficulties that one should focus on in one's life, but to continue on one's way despite everything.

 

Experiential Design Teaching says: If you are demotivated, don't let go. If you have been wronged, don't let it go. Do something else.

 

Because every job we continue despite its difficulty becomes enjoyable for us over time. A person who cannot enjoy production, drags his life into darkness with laziness and sloth; as he consumes and stops his movements.

Although we believe that getting everything we want will make us happy, human beings are insatiable.

Even if he gets everything he wants, he will always find something to complain about. Even when you go on your most desired holiday, something may be missing. Either the waiter, the food, the sea, the lift or the weather can definitely be stuck on something. Therefore, it is very easy to find things to complain about in life. The point is to be able to continue paddling on the path we set out on, whether the water is cold, wavy or too windy.

Only in this way can we unlock our true potential and reach the highest version of ourselves.

So come on, "Keep swimming!“

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