At the end
of last summer when I was in London for the last time, I was sure I was going
to be in London for the Olympic Games this summer. As it turned out I wasn’t. Actually I even barely found the time to
watch the games. The Turkish team was
represented by 114 athletes in 16 sports in London, 66 women and 48 men. This was the game Turkey was represented by
the highest number of women athletes.
This surely is a good sign.
However, the difficulties women are facing in Turkey are not
diminishing.
I was in
Seoul, Korea for the first time in June this year and as I was visiting the
National Museum of Korea, I could not be but surprised that a special
exhibition “Emperors In Istanbul, The Civilizations of Turkey” had opened in
addition to the permanent collection. I
would be in Seoul for only two days and I found the chance to see very
important historical artefacts from our history and from Istanbul. Some of them I had seen for many times at the
Topkapi Palace or Istanbul Archeology Museum, but so many more of them, I was
seeing for the first time in Seoul. I was surprised, happy and also impressed
by the way the exhibition was put together at this National Museum.
A few years
ago I had found myself discovering the close relationship between Japan and
Turkey through the tragic story of the Ottoman Ship Ertugrul. And now I was discovering in quite
coincidental ways the relationship between Korea and Turkey. May be there only two important sites where
Turkish soldiers are buried in the Far East.
One of them is in Japan and the other one is in Korea. And in the last two years I find myself
visiting our soldiers in both of them in the most unexpected ways.
Life seems
to coordinate the paths and take me there.
This special exhibition on Turkey was organized to honour and celebrate
the 55th anniversary of the friendship and close diplomatic
relations between Korea and Turkey since the Korean War, in which Turkey had provided
military support to Korea from 1950 to 1953.
Over 1000 Turkish soldiers lost their lives in Korea in that War and are
still resting there.
I had not
planned to see this exhibition as I had not planned to visit the UN cemetery
where our Turkish soldiers are resting in Busan in Korea, on the specific day
that the soldiers who lost their lives in the Korean War are honoured and
commemorated in Korea. But I was there,
in Busan, on June 25th, 2012.
I was praying for them there when whole of Korea was praying for them as
well.
Life surely has its special order when it
comes to times and places.
We might
think that we go to a certain city or country because we want to or choose to. The way I see it now, this is a much more
complicated process. A process we are
not usually aware of.
And exactly
for that reason when we need to go to a place that we do not want, we start
complaining. Sometimes we plan to go a
city for a business trip. Then we are told we cannot go. We feel we have been cheated. We sign up for a tour, then the trip is
cancelled and we are dismal. We wanted something, it did not happen, and surely
this must be something bad. Right?
The reasons
we believe things are happening or not happening for might create heaven or
hell for us. We are out of the group for
the business trip to Italy and we criticize ourselves for not being good enough
to be chosen to go, or we start complaining about how thoughtless and
unappreciative our manager, who is not taking as we the company group, is. It is just not that simple. Your manager might indeed in unappreciative
of your efforts, but he or she still might be making the best decision for you.
When
something does not seem to be happening as planned, there are two options. Either we have to push harder and/or find a
way to make it happen or it is not supposed to happen and/or we are supposed to
give up or do something else.
Understanding which one we are faced with can make a great difference in
our happiness and success. As work with
hundreds of different people in my coaching and consulting work, I realize that
main bulk of the work that we do is about understanding this very concept.
...
There is a
time for everything, a time to go, a time to come. There is time to know. And sometimes the universe will want us to
sit and wait and do nothing. All are a
gift, as life is.
I chose a
card from the “Saints & Angels” Oracle Cards of Doreen Virtue. The card of “Sweetness” came. This message is from our Guardian Angels for
this week. The message is about noticing
and enjoying life more. It is about
trusting that the support of the spiritual world will be with us if we choose
to lower our defences. Life does toughen
us up at times, yet we need to connect with the sweetness of life, with our
sweetness to enjoy life. And our
relationships need that sweetness to, through speaking with love, of love,
through being kind and generous.
May your
days be filled with love and light.
Have a
great week.
Zeynep
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Quote of the Week:
“As you teach so will you learn. If
that is true, and it is true indeed, do not forget that what you teach is
teaching you.”
-
From Course in Miracles
Affirmation of the Week:
From Louise L. Hay: “The Law of
Attraction brings only good into my life.”
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