Wednesday, July 13, 2016

My fifteenth column at Modatava.com " INSINCERE NEW YEAR WISHES" (English translation below)
// Modatava.com'daki onbeşinci köşe yazım "İÇTEN OLMAYAN YENİ YIL DİLEKLERİ"
http://modatava.com/icten-olmayan-yeni-yil-dilekleri-2803
We’ve entered the new year. While spreading insincere new year wishes, we’ve in fact wished for ourselves most. How selfish we are, aren’t we? All of us have expectancies from new year but first of all we don’t see new year has expectancies from us..
We wish happiness for ourselves. What kind of happiness is this? Only making (me) us happy one? What if that one while making (me) us happy, will crash others’ rights, then should we still be happy? And is happiness ”I’ll be happy when I have so much money”? - Why not others can have properties too? Or is fame happiness? If you are going to be unsuccessful, weak fame, why should you be famous? Also you will be unhappy like this too. People wishing marriage, relationship not to be alone and expecting happiness, be sure, if the person you meet is not soulmate/same vision person; neither marriage, nor relationship will bring happiness.. I haven’t forgotton unbelievable ’third person’ people, who are keen on making partners of couples cheat on each other, tricky, wishing to be happy getting drowned by gifts bought by taken partner/lover of someone else: Maybe they will have an illusional happiness inside after destroying the couple’s happiness, but, they will never ever make that destroyed partner happy; that partner coming from destroyed marriage won’t be made happy won’t stay with them forever - don’t they know this?
We wish peace for world, right? So, are we trying to stop terror? Oh, terror side wishes to be happy too, what will happen now? Staring at other people’s country, trying to take a part of that country by terror and violence, that happiness is a short time one too. ”Why?” you ask. In the saying ’taken’ country, won’t be looked after in the same value it had; that country won’t be as beautiful as it was; will be ugly just like them - don’t they know this?
We wish health. Are we taking good care of ourselves first? Are we eating little and soberly? Consuming enough water? How is our vitamin D level? Or blood sugar? Or exercise, walks? Let’s say we are healthy and we wish for it to go on, while lively lively wishing for health, for a very close one, maybe for our ill relative, are we praying, wishing health? Are we able to say ”She/He needs this wish more”? How about doing something to be her/his health, medicine? Maybe the wish of her/him will come true by our solutions, then why don’t we solve things? If we did, her/his wish would come true already: You could bring both health and happiness for someone! And you became happy when she/he became happy. So your wish for happiness came true already too, right?
And we wish success first for ourselves again.. For instance a rise at workplace.. Let’s look at the mirror truely. Are we the people who have to rise, the ’true deservers’, or others deserve rises and we wish it for ourselves only to get happy? We also expect a car from the workplace.. Also a bonus salary.. Let’s say they gave them: Did we earn it by working or it was the success of the team? Are we going to share the bonus salary with the team? At least, are we going to buy a dinner for the team? Nooo in our plans, there are a secondary or third television and a set of furnitures, what is a team dinner (!)

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