IT'S A HONEYBEE THING — THE GOAL

 

  

Everyone has certain areas in life where they naturally shine.

Some bake pastries so delicious their name becomes synonymous with them.
Some are quiet and reserved, yet when they speak a single sentence, it holds more meaning than a thousand words.
Some write so beautifully that you find yourself within their lines.

We tend to normalize what we do often — and what we do well.
Yet there’s something beyond that: being better than normal.

Being better than normal means excelling in more than one area.
But what does “good” really mean?

It means being like honey — beneficial, sweet, delightful, and nourishing.

Among insects, honeybees are better than normal.
While most insects are vital to the ecosystem, they don’t create food.
Honeybees, on the other hand, make honey — a precious gift of nourishment for humans.

Of course, a honeybee’s value isn’t limited to its honey.
Despite its tiny body, it’s full of skill, intention, and purpose — the more you observe it, the more you want to become like it.

But what makes bees so remarkable?
Have you ever wondered?

Perhaps by understanding them better, we too can learn to become like a honeybee
to become like honey itself.

A honeybee’s every move aligns with its purpose.
It seeks the source from which honey can be made, and once it finds that source, its only destination is the hive.
Its entire life revolves around one goal: to make honey.
Every action outside the hive serves that purpose.

Sevgi sat on her usual step, exhausted by love itself — trapped once again in a spiral of regret, anger, and hopelessness.

When she looked at herself, all she could see was failure.
Yes, she had failed again.
What had she even expected?
What business did someone as “untalented” as her have in a state orchestra anyway?

Sevgi first met the violin as a child.
Her mother had bought her a cheap one, just to keep her busy and away from the TV.
She thought Sevgi would play with it for a while, then toss it aside.
But Sevgi loved it. She’d rush home from school and spend hours trying to play.
The sounds were dreadful at first, so unbearable that her family finally enrolled her in a violin course.
And that’s how her real journey as a violinist began.

Ten years passed.
With great effort, Sevgi managed to get into the conservatory of a private university.
Her greatest dream was to play in a state orchestra.
That’s why her true goal had been to get into a state conservatory, but it hadn’t worked out.
“I can work hard here and transfer later,” she told herself.
She had another big goal.

But, just like in her final year of high school, her excitement soon drifted elsewhere, to her classmate Zafer.
At home, her phone started occupying her hands more than her violin.
Her attention, once fixed on her lessons, now revolved around the cafés she went to with Zafer.

Because of her absences, she couldn’t take the transfer exam, and with her grades too low to pass, she had to drop out.
She lost her scholarship and couldn’t afford the tuition anymore.
Around that time, she broke up with Zafer, fell into depression, and started working as a waitress to clear her head.

“I spent all those years studying just to clear tables for ten hours a day?”
She couldn’t stop herself from thinking.
Sitting on the steps, she bit her nails in anger and, as always, blamed everyone — her mother, her father, Zafer, herself, her school, her teachers… and still, she found no relief.

Then she remembered those early days with her violin, the sleepless nights of excitement, the dreams she built, the goals she set.
Now she had nothing left.
Well, almost nothing. Her violin was still in her room.

Could it be possible… to start again?
Maybe this time, without straying from the goal?

If we want to succeed in life, the first thing we need is a goal.
Of course, most of us set goals for ourselves; big or small.
But often, even when we set out toward them, we fail to reach them.
Sometimes the road feels too long and demanding.
Sometimes we take detours and lose sight of both the path and the goal itself.
In the end, what we accumulate are mostly our failures.

Because success is not simply reaching the goal 
it is creating the right reasons to reach it.

When we set a goal and align our every action, effort, and decision with it 
we begin to develop mastery,
just like a honeybee.

But being a honeybee is no easy task!
At first glance, it may seem like their only job is to make honey.
Yet when you look closer, you realize how many other skills they have 
even in the act of making honey itself.

These little bees will continue to surprise us even more…
When? In the next part of our story 🙂

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