A good mother or father is someone who can live their own life. Someone who is engaged in life and can live it fully also respects the lives of others. When they become a parent, they perceive their child as a being with their own unique world and respect their rights.
A person who can live their own life can be a more ideal individual in all aspects of life. They may experience negative emotions based on what they are forced to experience or cannot experience, and these emotions can be reflected in their interactions with others. These reflections, which become an endless cycle, create a society that is on the verge of losing its desire to understand and be understood. This may not be a loss of desire, but rather a loss of hope in this regard.
Our goal during this period might be to escape this situation, to experience the joy of understanding and being understood, to show this to people, and to overcome the negative feelings that hinder understanding, thereby achieving and helping others achieve a consciousness of 'oneness'.
Quote: Engin Geçtan
Originally published on Medium on September 12, 2020. English translation of “kendini yaşamak”.