HARMONY WITHIN BOUNDARIES

 

Selim loved going to school and learning new things. His favorite thing was to tell his mother and father what he learned at school at dinner when he came home.

 

Since his mother was not sent to school by his father at the time, she grew up working in the fields, and was taught to read and write by an older brother who was one of the seasonal workers in the field. His father, on the other hand, studied medicine, graduated, and was appointed to his mother's village to work in order to get his expertise. After that is history...

 

Science lessons were on the menu today! Miss Semra was explaining the human body and its organs.

 

"Yes, children! Our internal organs are small workers inside our bodies that we cannot see with the naked eye, each with a different function that allows us to live.

 

The organ that controls all organs is the brain. The brain controls the muscles, has duties such as ensuring coordination, perceiving and interpreting the data produced in our body, providing speech, storing memory and creating emotions and thoughts.

 

Our lungs fill our chest like two inflatable balloons. Its most important function is to pass the oxygen we inhale by breathing into our blood and to remove the carbon dioxide produced in our body.

 

And our liveeeeer...”

 

Selim was both listening and trying to take notes of what Miss Semra was telling. He was trying to draw the organs shown by the teacher on the board in the most accurate way to show his mother and father in the evening. Selim wrote as the teacher explained, and when the lesson was over. It was recess time. He became engrossed in the game. When school was over, he and his friend Yusuf were on their way home.

 

-Do you want to come over this evening, Selim? We can play soccer together in the backyard.

-I would love to, Yusuf, but today I will tell my mother and father about the internal organs we have just learned.

-Oh right! I forgot your evening tradition, did you take good notes at least?

-I did! What caught my attention the most was how different organs worked so harmoniously with each other. Think about it; No organ can interfere with the duties of another organ. If that organ does not do its job, another organ cannot replace it. How special are they?

-I wish people were like organs...

-What do you mean?..

- I mean, I wish everyone would just do their own duty and be compatible with other people. You shouldn't try to make decisions in someone else's life. For example, my mother. I'm tidying my room, it not like I’m not. But I have an order of my own, I like to put my pencils in a drawer, not in a pencil case. So that it doesn't distract me when I see it on the table, and I can reach it right away. But my mother thinks my drawer is messy, so she takes them and puts them in the pencil case. We argue constantly about my pens. However, it is my duty to tidy my room, I wish she would not interfere in my room.

-Hmm... You're right, Yusuf. For example, our liver controls and filters clean and dirty substances in our body. But our stomach digests the food we eat. Now, if the liver says, "I will digest today," then our body will be open to harmful substances. Who will protect the body this time?”

-So you're asking if my mother does my duty, then who will do my mother's duty?

-That's right, Yusuf! The person who plays the leading role on someone else's stage remains an extra on their own stage. Everyone should play their own role very well, and if they are on someone else's stage, they should be a very good supporting actor. Everyone should be harmonious within their own boundaries.

-Wow Selim! You said it very well indeed! Can I come over to dinner? I wonder what your mother and father will say!

-Ha ha! Why not? Let's go!