This is your story told -1

Berkem Vural
2 min readNov 28, 2020

“…

someday, you’ll be saying the same thing,

time ticks away so the story is told.”

Orson Welles

The most important thing that I recognize in my life by years: life is relative. There are more or less 7 billion people live, even though covid19 exists all around the world and I believe that each person out of these more than 7 billion people watches the world exactly different from each one, absolutely. Doubtlessly, we understand the meaning of life as our backgrounds. The state propagandas, family education, pressure of the environment, etc. shape our thoughts and beliefs, doctrines we follow… Due to the fact that the societies have similar cultures in their regions, each part of them is obviously distinguishable in any aspects, you name it. Anyway, in this perspective, even ‘our things’ are changing, as Heraclitus said once: ‘the only thing that is constant is change’. Therefore, things are changing while time is taking away. However, some of our essentials are not changeable by the way, this is one and the only thing that the philosophers have been forgotten. These essentials are also dependent on the individual, so, my essential, apparently, has been ‘love’ since I was a little child. First of all, I have fallen in love with books in a library where close to my dad’s small shop; the shop under the conditions of economic crisis. My dad had taken my hands and taken me to the cradle of books, perhaps to lessen his responsibility in the shop with me, instead of ‘babysitting’. Whether the reason was this or not, it was constructive for me, no doubt, it was my first love. Then, I found myself in the arms of science, it was my second love. The methods of scientific research to suppress my curiosity, especially for the processes around me, inside nature; have been like an eternal goal that I have chased. It was my second love and both of them still my loves and probably they will be with me till the end of my life. However, I have one more love, although I know the third will be changed as we have already discussed it. Finally, time ticks away, and in order to be allowed to say ‘the story is told’, I would like to tell you, the story of my third love.

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Berkem Vural

I have spoken, and saved my soul. Engineer, literate, chatterer, life long learner. Frankly, sometimes I listen, always I talk and honestly, this is my fault.