WHAT CAN I DO?

        

The Strategy of Dishwashing

 

It was an ordinary day for Emine. The sun was getting brighter each minute. The morning light in her kitchen was calming. She opened the window a little, letting in the fresh spring air in. She had sent the children to school and was standing behind the counter, which was her main working place. “Now, where to start?” she thought. She looked at the plates and picked them up. “They don't look too dirty, I'd better wash them by hand.” As she ran her hands over the plate, she realized that it was more greasy than she expected. First she thought, “Should I even bother?” but she persisted “No, it will be clean with a little more effort”. She turned on the hot water and got rid of the grease, even though it was a little difficult. It turned out that the plates she thought were clean were not.

 

As she finished her chores and sat in her armchair, she started to think. “One's life is just like these plates. Sometimes we want our problems to be solved and handled immediately. We take it too lightly, thinking we can solve them easily.”

 

Like the grease on the plate, we have all kinds of problems in our lives. Sometimes something we consider insignificant can actually be the source of the problem. And sometimes the things we see as crucial can turn out to be only distractions. So how do we know whether our problems are important or not? Our life is not simple as washing a plate where we can turn on the boiling water when it gets a little greasy.

 

Delicate Reflection

 

How can we solve the problems we face in our lives, like cleaning the dishes? To distinguish between the truth and false in a matter, we need to examine and delicately reflect upon our life. But human beings like to live this life casually. Most of the time, we prefer to stay in our comfort zone. We make excuses. We say we don’t want to be bothered or that it is what it is. It is the easy way to live as we learned from our mothers and ancestors. The difficult thing is to delicately reflect upon life and put what we know into practice.

 

Because in order to believe and be convinced of an information one needs to collect evidence from life itself. Human beings think they know a lot about many things, but they fall behind when it comes to practice. 

 

The Experiential Design Teaching says that people assume they know what they hear. However, life responds to what we do rather than what we know.

 

If we turn to someone on the street and ask; “What will become of this country?” everyone would have an answer, an opinion on how a country should be governed. But most people have problems when it comes to managing the people in their house.  It seems like this is not the truth of the matter… Then what is it?

 

The truth is…

 

The truth is that our eyes can not see themselves. We can see everyone else, but we can't see ourselves.  Everyone else can see us, but they can't see themselves. So what is it that we need? How do we get the real knowledge that will enable us to see ourselves through a third eye?

 

How does one free oneself of one's delusions? Our lives are like greasy plates that seem clean at first glance. Can we see the grease that everyone sees but we don't care much about? When will we start doing the things we know? When will we stop thinking that the plates aren't that dirty and take the risk to fight with real grease?

 

Are you ready?

 

Human beings move closer to the truth when they can accept their mistakes, their grease, their dirt. Only when we admit our mistakes can we feel remorse. When we are ashamed and regretful of our grease and dirt we begin to purify and clean ourselves. It all begins when we ask ourselves this question; “So what can I do?”

 

Every person who adds behavior to knowledge will eventually be cleansed of their dirt. As long as we don’t delay or give up and be sincere in the process… We all have grease and dirt on our plates. The point is not to make it dirty but to clean it.

 

Do you have the courage? I'm turning on the hot water, are you ready?

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Experiential Design Teaching is a science of reality that shapes the future with past experiences. It teaches the methods that individuals need to solve their problems and reach their goals. 

It offers strategies to people who want to be happy and successful with the programs "Who is Who", "Mastery in Relationship" and "Success Psychology". 

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“What can "one" person matter among billions of people?

Ask that “one” person for the answer!”

Yahya Hamurcu