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How I Learned to Play the Cards I was Dealt

And You Also Can.

Ulas Can Cengiz
5 min readJan 18, 2022
Photo by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash

Life treats everyone differently. You may be born under any circumstance, and you may be lived through good or bad things. You made it this far anyhow. And since you’re here, let’s turn it into an advantage and take a look at your life from a slightly different perspective.

The things I’ll say may be hard to face, but I used those things to understand who I am and where I’m going to. When you realize who you are, you start to understand the people around you. When you know where you are going, you know where you want to go.

Life deals with different cards for everyone. We have to play the cards we were dealt. That’s the starting point of accepting who you are.

Plans Change

You always had plans, and life always had something to say about those, right? Life works that way; it has its own agenda. So, statistically, most of your plans will fail. The thing is, it’s ok to change plans along the way.

You don’t have to make all the plans ahead and keep them no matter what. Even if everything goes as planned, it’s not sustainable. You can’t plan against everything that may happen in real life.

So, what you need to do is to make your plans changeable. Because they’ll most likely change. You…

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Ulas Can Cengiz
Ulas Can Cengiz

Written by Ulas Can Cengiz

Tech Lead, Entrepreneur, Consultant, @ulsc — Support me: https://ulsc.medium.com/membership

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