YOUR GROWTH IS HIDDEN WHERE YOU ARE CHALLENGED

Life is sometimes like a hill. As you walk, your breath gets short and you get tired. Sometimes you even say, “Enough! I can't go on anymore”.

It appears so unbearable in your eyes that you want to give up. However, it is exactly those moments that determine your direction... Those moments when you are stuck between continuing and quitting... Those moments of decision shape your future. Every hill pushes you... But that is not its purpose.  It's not there to push you, it's there to lift you up. Because it is when you fall that you learn how much you can rise.

Once upon a time there was a young carpenter. He would spend hours in his tiny workshop full of hardwood. During those hours, he put not only his hands but also his soul into his work.

But his work did not always go well. As life doesn't always go smoothly... In fact, this was the norm, but the carpenter didn't look at it that way.  He was disappointed with every failure he faced, with every customer he lost.

There were many nights when he thought, “Maybe I can't do this job.”

Then he realized that every night leads to a morning. He put the thought of giving up out of his mind. On those nights, he started figuring out what he would do in the morning, and in the morning he got up and tried again.

Because the best way to learn was through mistakes. The carpenter understood this. With every difficulty there was an easiness.

At the end of every mistake, there was a learning for the eyes that looked carefully.

One day he was offered a big project. It was bigger, more complex and difficult than he had ever done in his life. He had received similar offers before but had turned them down.

He thought for days about whether to accept the offer or not. “I can't do this job,” he said to himself. But a voice inside him whispered, “Remember, you grow where you struggle.”

He listened to that voice and said, “Okay.” He knew it would not be easy, but he was willing to put in the effort to overcome those difficulties and the ease that would follow. 

As he expected, things got more difficult as the project progressed. The wood did not take the shape he wanted. The plans didn't go according to the initial plans.

But every problem brought a lesson. When a piece broke, he found a more durable solution. When he made a mistake, he was more careful not to make it again.

He worked patiently for days and weeks. Calluses formed on his hands, he had sleepless nights, but he did not give up. Because this project was not just a job for him. It was a challenge where he tested his own limits. 

Months later, when the project was completed, he couldn't believe it. It was not only a beautiful work. It was also a reflection of his courage, determination and patience.

While others admired the work, he was seeing things that others could not see. In every detail, in every texture, there were traces of his struggle. 

That day the carpenter was once again sure. It wasn't easy achievements that truly elevated a person. It was faith and effort in difficult moments.  Whenever he faced a difficult climb in his life, he remembered that project. The most meaningful victories came at the end of the toughest struggles. Carpenter clung to this truth. 

The Experiential Design Teaching states: “Every good is hidden behind a challenge.” 

Everyone's story can have such periods in life. The burden of life sometimes gets heavy. Instead of being crushed under that burden, we learn to lift it. It is exactly in these moments that our story that makes us grow and make us strong is written. Every challenge is an opportunity to reshape people, an invitation to discover their limits. When those limits are pushed, people realize their true strength. Behind every success lies a struggle with tears, a story of not giving up and a silent struggle with oneself. 

Sometimes one may want to give up, sometimes one may get tired. But one must remember that the rise of man is hidden in the places where he falls. Thus each person writes his own story as he climbs his own hill. 

We hope to write stories that we can look back on and say, “I was challenged, but I did it!”

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