Leave a message to 2022

Kasım Çaldaştan
3 min readJan 8, 2023
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Every smart people re-evaluation and review to whether reached to goals throughout a year in the last days of year and then set the new year resolutions. For this year i have decided to leave a message to 2022 but this message won’t cliche that everybody say good bye 2022 welcome 2023 like as. I would like to start things with what I encounter first time.

I have had covid with together my family members at first days of the new year. This was bad experience.

I have reached to my year goal about the read books. At first i thought reading books about just consist of the numbers. I thought the more books i could read, the better but i realized not important the numbers, it’s important that what type prefer books, how many you understood, how much you put into your life.

I traveled where i have not been before, such as

  1. Longoz forest in Sakarya. The Longoz forests which are completely covered with water during winter and spring has a floristic composition of mixed forest trees of 8–15 meters tall.
  2. I saw a forest that designed with take into account comfortable and harmony between human and nature in addition its free :) its call Ormanya, consist 12 region these are child zoo, camp area, nature school, birds observation area, exhibition hall, wildlife area, recreation area, nature trails, horseback riding, forest village, rehabilitation center. this place is in Kocaeli.
  3. I read a novel in head of the year. The novel take place in Bergama Izmir. This novel’s characters are gods of ancient world. The places of novel impacted me, it especially take interesting for me that there are being in Izmir. I decided to add into my travel list to this places. Some has historical importance and some has nature beauty but most important all of them has cultural rich . Pergamon ancient city, The Great Altar of Pergamon (Though Pergamon Altar place in Turkey but itself in Germany because Germany stole the all altar of bergama piece by piece in 1870) , Red Hall Basilica, Ephesus, Seven Sleepers Cave, Virgin Mary House, Pamukkale (Hierapolis) so on.
  4. There are natural beauties too exclude of historic places. its beautiful is so famous even apocalypse would not touch this village, yes I’m sure, you remembered, this village name is Şirince. Izmir has many place to you can satisfaction like sand, sun, sea, bay. My prefer have been Foca, Didem, Ahmetbeyli, Dilek peninsula and much more places
  5. I have been chance to trial local tastes. I have been chance to trial local tastes that Ahead of these comes “Izmir Bomb” it’s a cookie which full of chocolate and other so popular is “Boyoz”, Turkish pastry served both plain and filled with cheese, vegetables, or meat and other delicious taste is “Izmir Cop Sish”, the list continue so this. if you go to Izmir in middle of summer or before winter comes, you can get to smell and taste from tomato that you have not been at all, you can get enough to fig.
  6. Of course it has been occurred bad things but I am going to not talking about this bad things. Difficulties, diseases, challenge, any other bad things we face is helps understand to realize the worth that we have. I will said this and I will want you think this.

It was like a note to myself.I hope that we can gather good experience, unforgettable memories. The most important is able to ensure progress throughout your lifespanömür / yaşam süresi.

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