"I'm learning," she said, "to turn my shadow into my sun."
"Put your hands over the candle," she said. "Now look at the wall." Golgenin Gunesi 1 - Meryem Soylu
Meryem Soylu was a woman who lived in the thin space between two worlds. "I'm learning," she said, "to turn my shadow into my sun
When Meryem first walked in, she saw chaos. A boy named Cem was flipping a desk. A girl named Derya was crying because she couldn’t spell her own name. A boy named Cem was flipping a desk
"See?" Meryem whispered. "The shadow is bigger than the flame. Your problems look bigger than they are. But you are the hand. You can change the shape."
"The useful thing is not to chase the light, but to sit with someone in their shadow until they remember the sun." You don't need to fix everything. Sometimes the most useful thing you can do is sit in the dark with someone, name the shadow together, and remind them—and yourself—that every shadow proves there is light nearby.
That became her method.