"The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when… When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job.’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now."

-- Marshall Goldsmith

Happiness

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

-- Denis Waitley

STuck in A moMenT

The sky is as clear as my mind...Today, I realized once again: LIFE IS WORTH TO LIVE, no matter what it brings, causes or makes up..
I'm sitting on the Veranda, feeling the sun warming me from my foot up to my heart, breathing deeply to refresh my mind. There is nothing else what could give you the feeling to be free except sitting outside under the sun, having singing birds around and starring to a clear-blue sky.
This view gives you the feeling that you were born to live. All these is created for you to discover. The world, the life, everything is waiting for you with open arms...
Why are you still stucked in a moment? What is it which makes you wait?
Let me tell you how to get out of it , about the right moment :
..the right moment is WHEN you are brave enough to open your eyes and look through the open window outside, through the walls, houses, streets, borders, people to the universe, THEN you feel it is time to act!!
TODAY, right now it is the right moment to do something you always wanted. Because, if you don't move now, you will realize the truth as a painful fact, which is the running time itself..
Thinking continuosly about the right moment is just a waste of your precious life. What are you waiting for? You are still not dead!! Come on!! hurry up, you can still catch the time before death!! Do something which doesn't include being greedy or selfish, having stress or getting into a depression.
STOP reading some books, which should make differences in your life, you would rarely use their advises.
GO OUT, don't be bored to spend time alone, you don't need someone. Believe it or not, YOU CAN buy a coffee or a tea by yourself and lie on the grass , look up to the sky, while you are listening music..Of course, don't reject anybody who wants to join you while discovering the moment.
BUT remember, do not make up an excuse for enjoying the sun for there is no grass, no park , no seaside neither a Veranda where you live...There is always an option to feel the sun even in Pole though it takes your months :).
Do not be afraid to sit under sun, stop looking for a shadow because sun means light which lightens you..but shadows are as dark as nights which covers the reality for a temporarly time. Despite everything not to cause for misunderstandings, do not stay long outside under the sun!! We try to enjoy the life, not looking for a short way to die :)...

What I'm trying to say is that I am taking decisions, wasting time on thinking to see my problems in a more complicated way as they are in fact, sleeping to have my eyes closed not to face today, trying to live in the best part of old times or future...
...being afraid of what I may crash into because of my choices, trying to find the meaning of life, living...

But LIFE IS SIMPLE!! Why should we make it more confusing? To enjoy the moment, to be grateful and thankful to God for all you have or which you don't have: That simple is Life :)..

To have a refersh, just buy an ice-cream without thinking if it is time for it, just buy it, go somewhere you feel the sun, remember to take your mp3 player, look up to sky and breath deeply, enjoy the music&ice-cream.....

For the one's who always find an excuse:
if you do not have any money for ice-cream then take anything you like to eat or drink, it doesn't have to be from a supermarket, take it from your house. The one's who do not have money or anywhere to go to feel the sunshine; just open your window, stretch yourself, look up.. there, it is smiling to you :)
Do not be sad if you dont have a mp3 player, you still have the ability to sing or to dance. Sing your favorite song and dance to it, no matter what they think of you!

As you see, there is always an option, choose the one without excuses!! What are you waiting for? Dont continue what I have been doing, REFRESH yourself as I did Today..
Don't get stuck in a moment
You've got to get yourself together
Don't say that later will be better
Cuz It's just a moment
This time will pass....

writing from the Veranda with a big smile, a chocolate-stain on the cheek and listening to U2 "Stuck in a moment" :))..

You&Me
very soon together,
a new start in Istanbul going up to stars then back to our hearts
always with you, always with us
forever,
before the time runs out
before we start to fight
against our fears, against ourselves
we will choose to be heros of our lives
and will not wait to be saved
we will just live today,
and will close the past
the future will be our dream
we already have started to live today...

A cup of hoT ChocolaTe at backstreet

The topic may sound weird but believe me , you can get one of the most delicious hot chocolate at backstreet! Well, what makes this hot chocolate so fabulous is not that the main ingredient is chocolate!! :))..its more the atmosphere there:)..i dont mean the one of the place, of course.how could I?? havent you seen the pictures??it needs to be restored urgently:).he he..its to be surrounded by nice&crazy&different ppl from all over the world ...the conversations between those ppl..you just need to order a hot chocolate and listen to ppl talking..and to laugh:)..this is something u would never get in another place, of course if you dont have those friends as I have:)..."tell me, tell me something in English! Develop my english..", "If english is difficult for you to learn ,then learn japanese..", "If you want to go to Nigeria, just go by walking to Istanbul from Izmir, then swim to Marocco in two days and cyle to Nigeria!!this will cost you just 50YTL.."..

hahaha..i think there are no words to comment:)..just take your hot chocolate and come to meet us to see what is more weird?!! the topic, the conversations, the ppl or all together..;)))...jajajaja...:)