Take Amazing Risks
Share Article “To do amazing things you have to take amazing risks and suffer greatly,” said Zeynep, his five-year old genius friend in Bursa.
“Here,” she said gesturing around the restaurant, “many a-dolts stay with their mothers forever and a day because they are afraid of freedom and accepting responsibility for their lives. They eat fear morning noon and night...
"They are afraid to express their honest feelings, their innate desire for independence. They are willing victims of traditional conservative attitudes and values...
"Free will is a foreign language. They are scared of taking risks, letting go and growing. I may grow old but I’ll never grow up. If I grow up I die.”
“I feel the same way,” said Lucky.
One day while sharing lunch and drawing in notebooks, he said, “When I was nine I was going on 50. Now I am 50 going on 9. I exist outside adult time.”
“We are passing through,” Zeynep said lighting a candle in darkness.
The Director in Istanbul offered Lucky a new TLC adventure in Bursa. This shocked everyone in Ankara. They assumed he’d stay with them forever. Students and teachers celebrated his transition with a sparkling cake. Women cried sadness and joy.
“We are not here for a long time, we are here for a good time,” said Sappho the poetess.
One Ankara student articulated her desire to move to Istanbul for an educational engineering job in a quality control factory school producing obedient robotic idiot children and live with her boyfriend.
She cowered behind her futile quest for independence from over-protective parents. “My father won’t let me.”
“Take control of your life," said Lucky.
"Let go. Jump. Discover courage and your wings on the way down.”