Hello dear readers,
I’d like to start this piece with a question…
Have you ever asked your heart for forgiveness?
Come, let’s talk about this for a moment.
Sometimes I truly wonder — am I the only one who feels guilty toward their own heart?
Yes, dear readers, we often hurt our own hearts — strange, isn’t it?
Why would a person hurt their own heart? But it happens…
In fact, sometimes we become the greatest enemy of our own hearts.
We ignore it, we break it, we push it aside.
Yet if we could just love our hearts first, perhaps all this chaos would find resolution.
If we understood our hearts, learned its language, maybe we would find peace.
But more than anything, we’ve forgotten to make time for our hearts, haven’t we?
In the middle of all the confusion and rush.
With increasing work and responsibilities…
Maybe we had feelings of guilt — but we ignored them.
We kept postponing it. We told our heart, “Not now, I can’t deal with you right now.”
“I must focus on this, I must finish that.”
And in that storm, our innocent heart got lost…
How beautifully Behçet Necatigil expresses this in his poem “Sevgilerde”:
You postponed your affections to tomorrow
Shy, hesitant, respectful.
Your loved ones all misunderstood you.
Because of never-ending tasks
(You didn’t want it to be this way)
When just a look could explain everything
The love in your heart
Remained inside your heart.
You were hoping for broader times
It felt ugly to confess love in tight moments
You never imagined how fast the years would slip by in chaos.
In your secret garden
There were blooming flowers,
At night and alone.
You thought they were too little to offer
Or you simply didn’t have the time.
Painful, isn’t it? Yes, very painful.
And maybe by the time we finish all those tasks and finally say to our heart, “Please, come take a seat beside me now,”
…it’s already too late.
But now is the time to comfort the heart.
Will it always be this way? Should it be?
Of course not.
So how do we change it?
We must learn to bring our brilliant minds and our heart’s unique rhythm into balance.
I can hear you saying, “But how?” — because that’s exactly what my own inner voice is asking right now. ☺
By living!
Yes, by living — through experience, we’ll learn.
Some of us will learn late, some earlier, but eventually, we all will.
We’ll suffer losses, perhaps fall deep into regret,
…but we must know how to rise again!
We must be brave.
We must take ownership of our heart.
Embrace it.
And patiently wait for it to learn how to love again.
All of you have had moments where you said, “Why did I act like that back then?”
But now, stop questioning it.
Say instead: “Yes, I did it. But it won’t be like that anymore.”
Keep your energy fresh, allow love in.
Break through the mental and instinctive barriers — with your heart.
Try to love all beautiful things so that your heart may stay alive. ☺
Stay with love. Stay in peace with your heart.
And read these lines to it:
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Forgive me, my heart.
For all the injustices I’ve done to you,
For not trying to understand you — maybe even ignoring you,
For not appreciating the value of my feelings,
Forgive me, my heart.
Now, I am so in need of just one breath from you,
So thirsty… for the longing, the yearning within you.
Forgive me, my heart.
Now teach me to love again.
Erase all my outbursts, all the times I neglected you.
I feel your pain.
I know the unintentional ways I’ve lived…
Forgive me for not allowing you to be,
Forgive me for not loving you before anyone else.
I will love you deeply.
And I will cherish the one you love.
My Heart.
⸻
