Border dictionary tells us that it is the edge or boundary of something. This word was all the time was giving me anxiety and pessimistic mindset, I was not aware of the fact that I can choose more than what is proposed, from my childhood I have been taught a lot of things, I have been programmed since the beginning of my life but none of these things have nothing to do with my real self. I dedicated my life to feel my-true-self.
Finally, I have managed to understand this is the key for the mental health. That awareness helped me a lot to recover from chronic sadness and pessimistic mindset. I am really happy for the person that I am currently and glad that I have found myself. Then I decided let people know about it because all of my friends or basically almost whomever I talk had this mindset . “I miss the life” that feeling maybe the worst feeling that we can feel about ourselves aftermath my endless projects about mental health and well being started. In the year of 2018, I spent my university years mostly on abroad to examine what makes people happy and why are –mostly generation Z- people unhappy? These researches and the answers told me one very specific answer, Authenticity.
I started to believe that we cannot be conceptualized we are basically much more than what we think we are. In 2016, I organized debate activities at my university for a year we talked about happiness in an academic perspective, I also believe that dance is the language of the soul therefore I established Turkish traditional dance club in my university and we named our activities Dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin and Endorphine etc. to spread happiness in our own way.
In 2019, I decided to increase my zone and started to do things that startle me and write my own project and implement them. I wrote a project with my university and funded by the Turkish Ministry of Youth that aims to create a harmony nature and its effects on mindset, I wrote a project that is called SDG ambassadors in Croatia and it is funded by the Croatian ministry of Youth and I wrote 2 more projects about the well-being and mental health.
As long as I am alive, I will always go beyond the borders with my-true-self.