Ability To Be Permanent

Derya Uzun
SUSTALKS

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Unfortunately, there is no recipe of immortality or staying young here.

First of all, I wanted to start by understanding and explaining the concept of sustainability, which has been in my life for a long time, what it is and why it is important for each individual. I couldn’t have imagined that would be so difficult. I guess I’ve been so entangled in this definition that I’ve been using for a long time, but looking away and looking again can save me from this blindness! For this reason, I intend to re-gain the depth and quality of meaning by defining the word Sustainability with different words.

The only thing permanent is change, Heraclitus said.

Life means that everything changes in a balance, a human, a plant, a company, a product, in short, a rule that applies to every form that exists in time and space. Such as the flow of water, the withdrawal of the moon and sun from the stage with an ongoing order, the changing of the seasons… What if there were always summers or winters, or if the summers lasted longer than winters? (Exactly what is happening now). There wouldn’t be a sustainable balance. Yes, the definition of sustainability can only be used with the flow of all lives in a permanent balance, in yesterday, today, and tomorrow…

Although ‘’being permanent” sounds like a divine ability or “fixity” in meaning, nature has it as a process, and we are the particles, which are born, developing, producing, consuming, and eventually mixing to nature in this cycle. The unbalanced increase or decrease of any part, the prolongation or shortening of its life, causes us to lose our ability to be permanent just as a writer who consumes himself by writing constantly cannot be fed through channels such as reading, thinking, observing, and eventually being unable to move his pen, or continuing to produce fuel vehicles despite running out of fossil fuels. It is possible to set as many examples as anything in the universe on any person, institution, job, or subject, it is a very nice thinking exercise you can try!

Contrary to what people take to accustomed, to be permanent is not to find immortality or to exist as “I”, to be permanent requires sacrifice.

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