You Will Understand When You Grow Up

YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU GROW UP!

You cannot be successful in LGS if you do not solve 100 paragraph questions every day! If you don't study for 2 hours and 45 minutes a day, you can't pass Kudbettin! If you don't read 3 books a month, you can't be cultured, etc... Isn't it difficult to put quality, not quantity, at the center of life, when every corner of life is full of numbers and success is expressed in numbers and they are considered as criteria even for comparisons?

 “You are a child, you don't understand; you will be angry with me now, but you will understand when you grow up.” How empty are his words? However, you realize that you are a "child". You know that the number of paragraph questions you solve is of no use in human communication, and that solving spelling and punctuation questions correctly does not mean that your life will be perfect. Understanding what you read, interpreting what you understand and questioning life is not something that can be measured...

Zührenaz, who finishes two books a week, couldn't write two lines on the "Let's Protect Our Forests" board, right? Or Kudbettin, who claimed to study dozens of hours a week, could not qualify to participate in the Mathematics Olympics. Of course, it could also be the other way around. No offense to Kudbettin and Zührenaz, but quantities don't matter in life.

What matters is not how many books you read, but what benefit you get from that book. If you couldn't make a profit, it's important what you dream about. Maybe that wasn't the case, maybe there was a word in the book that he liked and it stuck in his mind. You say it didn't... Well, you must have drawn a picture saying the cover image didn't match the book. Look, you like this now! Just in case you didn't like what a hero in the book did, write in the margin: "It didn't take long for Erdem to regret this immoral behavior." You must have made a note to yourself. Amaan, you don't like something either! There must have been an aspect of the book that touched you. Don't you like reading? Did we tell you to read something that has pages? There is such a thing as reading nature and reading people.

Every day you greet an apartment with peeling paint on your way home. You imagine that there are dozens of different families, dozens of different lives living in it. You dress them all up and sometimes take them to the garden to water the magnolias, sometimes to kiss their grandmother's hands. You come across Pasha on the road. He doesn't come near you wagging his tail. His face looks sullen. You are searching for the reason for your unhappiness. The petals of your sister's crown of thorns flower on the balcony have fallen down. You touch the soil, it is wet. You stick your finger in like mud. “Oh dear, are your roots sick?” you say, you read the flower. Look, the term "root" crosses your mind as meaningful. Reading about life and reading with life will help you more than a 275 page book.

“You will understand when you grow up!”

Gönül Cantürk