CONTRADICTION
- Alper Apaydın
- Mar 2
- 2 min read
What it loves most is observing people, analyzing everything happening around.
Its purpose?
To find mistakes, errors, inconsistencies, contradictions—
To gently point them out, demand corrections—
To bring order to life, prevent chaos, make existence more predictable,
More manageable.
For the sake of individuals, for the sake of society,
For a better, more peaceful life.
In short, always with good intentions.
Who am I talking about?
My dear ego.
Your beliefs, choices, and desires create the life you live today.
So when something in your life doesn't satisfy you,
The power to find the reason behind it lies in your hands.
In mathematics, there’s something called a proof check—
A way to verify that a calculation is correct.
Life works the same way.
If your reality isn't adding up, if you're going in circles,
If you keep ending up at the same place, dizzy and confused—
Then stop.
Look around.
Are the numbers you're stacking actually divisible?
Are the equations you’re building even solvable?
You have no trouble noticing the flaws in others—
Their weaknesses, mistakes, contradictions.
You have strong opinions about what they should or shouldn't do.
You know what’s right for them.
But when you check your own results,
If your calculations keep failing,
If the numbers don’t align—
Who will find your errors and correct them?
Now take that sharp analytical mind of yours—
And use it on yourself.
Imagine you had a magic wand—
What would you point at?
What would you change?
Write down the contradictions,
The inconsistencies in your own behavior.
Then, take that same magic wand and write what you think would fix them.
What you believe would make everything right.
Now, pause. And be silent.
Because what you've just uncovered?
The things you've been ignoring in yourself.
The advice you've been too proud to give to yourself.
You can’t analyze something so clearly unless you already know it—
Unless you’ve seen it in yourself before.
Accepting this is hard.
It’s painful.
It takes courage.
But once you find that courage—
You’ll finally stop running in circles.
You’ll finally be on the pathTo getting the answers right.
What about you?
Have you ever caught yourself noticing in others what you struggle to face in yourself?
What would happen if, just for today, you turned that mirror inward?