Near the bustling docks of Eminönü, where the scent of the sea and the cries of seagulls fill the air. A woman walking a few steps ahead of me accidentally dropped a handwritten memo. “Excuse me, you dropped this,” I called out.
She looked suspicious for a split second, but then accepted it with a radiant smile and a quick “Thank you!” As the scent of the tide lingered and I watched her light footsteps, a profound quote echoed in my heart.
“All people are not either good or bad, either right or wrong, but the middle.” —Aristotle
Turning the Everyday into Gold
Daily, we unconsciously try to fit ourselves and others into black-and-white boxes of “right” or “wrong.” But in truth, everyone is a being drifting within that imperfect “middle.”
Look across the Bosphorus. No matter how much humans fluctuate between “good and evil” or “right and wrong,” the sea remains deeply blue, the sky spreads without borders, and the sun shines equally upon all. Before the overwhelming generosity of nature, our small imperfections dissolve as a part of that rich “middle.”
By shifting your gaze to the scale of nature and entrusting your heart to its embrace, the chains of “righteousness” that bind you will soften. The Bosphorus wind will gently cradle the richness of the “ocean” within your soul.
