Getting Rid of Gangrene
The gangrenous leg must be amputated as soon as possible. Otherwise, potentially fatal circumstances might arise. Your life might be filled with numerous gangrenous problems. It takes up your heart and thoughts. Unresolved matters, a friendship that requires confrontation, a relationship that needs to end, miscommunications, restless nights...
Life is short; the test is big… We don’t have the energy to waste on sterile miscommunication. Especially if misunderstandings and accusations have replaced tolerance... It is best for everyone to put an end to it after trying hard enough.
“Isn’t it strange?” begins Dostoyevsky. “We look for a truth in every lie of the person we love and a lie in every truth of the person we dislike.” How true! If both friendship and business partnership are involved, the process can be even more exhausting. If “money” has come into play and “trust” has been damaged, it will not be easy to continue this relationship.
The best course of action would be to face it head-on and end it with the least amount of harm possible. In this day and age, genuine friendships hold great value. Loyalty, altruism, extending a hand without reward, caring about your friend’s troubles. These ought to take place and go on. On the other hand, giving up, starting over, and possibly "formatting" might be the best course of action if your efforts yield greater issues. Otherwise, there would be incessant "Why?" and "How can it happen?" complaints. Questions will pull you down. You will halt your progress and commit the error you constantly preach about—"not dwelling on the past." So why wait a week, two days, or even months? What? Growing disagreements, tensions and poisonings... If this toxic process is allowed to continue, it could result in potentially fatal outcomes such as the gangrene leg being amputated.
Now is the time to settle accounts one last time, close the book, and sacrifice yourself for your values. focusing your energy appropriately, producing results, and battling through to the very end. Life is brief, the bill is large, and the burden of responsibility is great. Someone ought to be reborn. In fact, one should say "Bismillah" again with renewed hope every morning at sunrise. The best time to do this is during Ramadan. It is time to reflect, confess, let go of harmful things, seek solace in God, make this decision once and for all, and move on. This is a painful process, of course. But ultimately, there is light, and there is peace.
Being good, thinking clearly, surrounding oneself with good people, spreading goodness... being consistently on the side of good in the conflict between evil and good. to ultimately put an end to one's life as a decent person.
Note: This article is the English adapted version of my previously published Medium story titled “Kangrenden Kurtulmak” on Apr 15, 2022.
Aykut GÜL
