Can Life Really Be a Fairy Tale Being Lived?
As one's life flows out of the palms of one's hands, one can no longer bend down and pick up the pieces of one's life that one has tossed this way and that. One gets the feeling that it is too late for everything. Maybe it really is too late, but one cannot help thinking that this reality should not prevent us from clinging to our remaining time and feeling life.
When man opens his eyes to the world, he knows nothing, that is, he is ignorant. Sabri Akel, in his book 'life is a fairy tale', says: "Born ignorant of the laws of life, man, like a stone thrown into stagnant water, tries to establish a close relationship with all the circles around him. In fact, his most important task is in the first circle. A person who has educated his ego in every sense will be beneficial to all other circles and can do useful work."
Indeed, life does not stop, time flows like running water, in eternity. The time between the seventh and the seventieth age passes by in the blink of an eye. One understands it better and feels it to the bone when one reaches the age of seventy. As life flows out of his palms, he can no longer bend down and pick up the pieces of his life that he has tossed this way and that. One gets a feeling, one wants to say that it is too late for everything. Maybe it really is too late, but one cannot help thinking that this reality should not prevent us from clinging to our remaining time and feeling life. After all, life is lived like a fairy tale. The villains and the good, the victims and the heroes, the rich and the poor, the sick and the robust young men who live with them, in other words, everything is lived with its contradictions in fairy tales. Isn't our world the same? Everything in a fairy tale also exists in the real world. Because despite the imaginary world that fairy tales contain, don't the people who write these tales turn what they see in real life into virtual heroes and victims? Are fairy tales or the real world lies? Both of them continue to distract us. Both are finite, both make us feel that they are about to end. Just as we say that a beautiful fairy tale should not come to an end, we do not want our beautiful and sweet world life to come to an end. This is how we were created. We live a life that will never end, knowing that it will end. We worry about the virtual problems in this life as if they were real, we tear ourselves, we tear ourselves apart, but as I said, we are passing away from this false world, fairy tale-like life without even having the opportunity to collect our pieces. Those before us have gone, we will go, and those after us will come. This world fairy tale will go on and on like this.
Mankind is hypocritical, ungrateful. He burns the forests entrusted to him, pollutes the soil, does all kinds of evil to the seas even though he feeds on them, has no mercy on the animals entrusted to him, kills and tortures them, and goes on with his life as if nothing had happened. The only being that causes this unfair and unjust cycle in our world, the only being that should be held responsible, is us, called human beings. Perhaps God sent us to this world because He wants us to see whether we can get rid of the evil in us, to decide for ourselves whether we will strive for it or not, to live a temporary life like a fairy tale by trying to be good or bad. Despite all the good living among us, evil dominates most places. What do the good people do? Won't they struggle to put a stop to the bad course? Don't they have that much power and courage? Do we want a hero to come and stop evil like in fairy tales?
Think about it, why fairy tales are written, what do they add to us. First of all, fairy tales are magical stories. Fantastic monsters, wizards, far away countries and dreams are mentioned by the person who wrote that fairy tale. A child who grows up listening to fairy tales develops imagination, attention, memory, language skills and vocabulary. Gains the habit of listening and reading. Maybe he/she sees the distinction between the virtual, lying world and the real world. Perhaps fairy tales help them realise that the world they live in is also a fairy tale. Fairy tales may tell the child to take this world too seriously, to live without falling into depressions, to appreciate and enjoy the breaths he/she takes, to benefit himself/herself, his/her family and humanity, to reach the virtue of living without harming anyone, nature, animals, etc. Although it does not say it directly, the fairy tale really enables us to look at the real world with a fairy tale-like perspective. As the struggle between good and evil continues, it instils in us the role we should take. In the end, fairy tales show that it is goodness that must win, by telling about virtual life. While suggesting why we should be on the side for goodness to win in the real world, unlike fairy tales, it teaches us by living that goodness cannot come in a snap, it will cost a life.
In short, sometimes we say that the world has changed, nothing is the same as before. In fact, it is not our world that is changing, it is us in time. Aren't we already busy changing what is special to us in the flow of life? We are not very successful in that either. The world continues its cycle in the same direction, the sun rises from the same place and sets from the same place, the nights are always the same night, the days are always the same day, we are born and die. Life is only three days. Doesn't it consist of yesterday, today and tomorrow? Then what are we doing! If we find this right in ourselves, then why do we want to call every problem we cannot solve as fate and get out of the business with this simplicity? In short, we live in this mortal world with our own lies. We pass away from this fairy tale-like life with the tales we write and tell ourselves and believe in.
I say it by feeling it in my bones: Life is a fairy tale. Do you think it is a fairy tale too?
With respectful love
