Ocak 14, 2026
Artık buna değer mi?
23 milyon yaşındayım ve muhtemelen kendimi biraz “küresel vatandaş” olarak tanımlarım. Son 5-6 yıldır dört farklı ülkede (kendi ülkem dahil) yaşadım, çeşitli görevlerde okudum ve çalıştım. Şu anda Birleşik Krallık’tayım ve okuduğum ve aslında önemsediğim alanda iş bulmaya çalışıyorum.
Ancak son zamanlarda, özellikle de bir göçmen olarak, büyük resme dair kötümser olmamak çok zor. Ekonomik durum, hem buradaki hem de memleketteki siyasi istikrarsızlık ve iş piyasasının durumu, finansal istikrarın ve makul bir geçim kaynağının giderek ulaşılamaz hale geldiğini hissettiriyor. Yapmanız gerekeni yapsanız bile, bu artık güvenliğe dönüşmüyor gibi görünüyor.
Dürüst olacağım, depresyon ve kaygıyla mücadele ediyorum ve bunun muhtemelen düşüncelerimi daha nihilist bir tarafa doğru kaydırdığını biliyorum. Yine de, bunun ne kadarının zihinsel sağlığımın konuşmaktan ziyade şu anda dünyadaki çok gerçek yapısal sorunlara tepki vermekten kaynaklandığını söylemek zor.
Bunu aslında güvence vermek veya zorla iyimserlik sağlamak için göndermiyorum. Başkalarının, özellikle de benzer durumdaki insanların bazı şeyleri nasıl anlamlandırdığını gerçekten merak ediyorum. Eğer bağlantı kurarsanız, bunu duyduğuma memnun olurum. Ve eğer farklı, daha umutlu ya da ayakları yere basan bir bakış açınız varsa, bunu da duymayı çok isterim.
Tüm bunları nasıl yönetiyorsunuz?
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I think I might have a similar background as you, and definitely have similar concerns too. There is no “supposed to do” any longer. The days of working a 9-5 for 40 years to retire with a home and a fat pension are most certainly gone, and that’s the first thing you’ll need to accept and make peace with. But that doesn’t mean the world has stopped moving altogether.
In terms of a reaction and how to deal with it, I saw this shift coming around 15 years ago, and started changing my life accordingly. That means: freelancing work, flexibility, mobility, no loans, no real estate, nothing that would ever make me unable to pick up and move if I had to. And then there’s the mental side of that: no feeling of being beholden to one person, place or thing; no relying on a single profession or career to define my identity; no easy-way-out of defining yourself through a single nation or culture that you can simply wear like a name-tag.
I think that’s what the world is going to ask of us as things get more global, timeframes shrink, prices inflate, cultures blend, and instability reigns. The good news is, by uprooting yourself, you’ve already primed yourself for the future.
You’ll need to create a new vision of the world though to replace the old one that’s gone, so that you understand why you’re living like this, otherwise you’ll feel like you’re just bouncing around aimlessly. Meaning is no longer derived, it’s created, and while that’s a big burden to put on each person, it can also be incredibly liberating if you’re ready and able to seize that opportunity.
Hey brother. We’re in the same position. For my entire life I’ve moved around a total of 5 countries. Different cultures all around, speaking in languages I had a remote understanding of. Meeting people that loved me and hated me for various reasons. And of course this fleeting feeling that nothing ever truly lasts.
For some time I’ve envied those who never had to move around, because their worldview is so much more simpler. For example, I lived in Germany for a year and met the people there, you have a lot of young people who really only know how their immediate local environment works. They go to their church gatherings, local tight-knit community clubs, etc, and see everything happening in the world as very foreign, because they have everything they need where they are, and live just fine.
Then you have us. We see how fast things move. We’ve felt it. But we don’t move quite fast enough especially relative to what we see. ‘Security’ has become relative especially when you know what others have. And how fast we see that security disappear (especially if you’ve lived in the Arab Gulf).
But here’s the thing. Security is relative. Wealth is relative. What you consider ‘enough’ will be up to you. That’s the harsh truth, especially growing up.
I’m 25. I’m almost done with university. I left my uni town mid semester because I got a full time job at an American MNC, with pretty good pay. Am I happy? Hell yeah. But am I still worrying about ‘security’? Of course. The job market is ass.
But if we keep looking at the greener grass, I don’t think we’ll fully appreciate life and make the most of it. For people like us, who are blessed and cursed with the ‘fast’ life (not in the wealth way, even), the best thing we can do is to learn how to quiet our mind, and live in the present. I don’t mean some mumbo jumbo Bali mindfulness shit. I mean, you do the best you can today, for a better tomorrow, without letting the anxiety of tomorrow catch up with you. And it really is all just anxiety.
Political, economical instability – there’s very little we can do about it. Hard to change a whole society and make that impact, you’ll feel to large a burden. But you can start with yourself and scale up. The most important thing, is to be someone who can be useful to society, and can move people. Then I think you’ll be as ‘safe’ as you can be.
Just never stop fighting. Never let the weight of what you’ve seen, the impossibility of the things you want to achieve, drag you down into rumination. I had that at your age too. 22-23. Spiraled and got depressed. The next two steps would’ve been poverty and eventual death. But I had a roof over my head, some money to feed myself, it was just me that let my mind spiral. I thought, ‘if this is how bad it could get, and the next steps is just more suffering, I can surely do better even if I have no direction yet’. So I started picking myself back up. Went to gym, went back to working, joined some student projects. Which led to me getting this dream job (that I didn’t believe I’d have it in me to get).
Truth be told, I still don’t confidently know where I’m going. But ever since that point I never stopped trying to find the most high impact thing I could do with my time and energy (even if I didn’t believe in it, I really had nothing but the drive to just ‘do something’ with my life and not waste it). Now here I am, again, drastic and hectic changes still, but I can see how never stopping in my tracks led me to somewhere really great.
So don’t stop fighting, be grateful for what you have, learn to conquer your own mind, and be a good person. You’ll get what you deserve sooner or later. And you won’t expect it.