Defne YucesoyFor as long as I can remember, I always had something to say. Thoughts about the world, communication, history, friends or just quiet everyday details that would sit in my mind having nowhere to go. Conversations were often too short, words too limited, classrooms too structured and social media too artificial. My ideas needed a place to breathe, but I didn’t have a place to go to give them that space.
At some point between A and B I realized that waiting for the “right place” to express thoughts was the wrong approach. If the “right place” didn’t exist, I could simply create it.
The realization of creating a place so safe to express my thoughts led me to create this blog. Where Thought’s Linger is not just a collection of my essays. It is an experiment that thinks out loud. Writing here lets curiosity turn into conversation.
Leadership does not necessarily mean leading people. It could mean leading ideas. Leadership could begin with a simple and quiet act which is making the choice to think more deeply about the world and inviting others to do the same. Ideas are the tools that are used while shaping conversations and conversations shape society.
Creating a safe space to let those ideas exist is already a drive. This blog that I have been updating since I was 13 became that space. Thoughts that could be rushed and disappear with the rush of everyday life pause, unfold and be examined.
If these essays do anything, I hope they encourage reflection. Hopefully a reader pauses for a moment longer or questions something they had accepted too easily.Sometimes the most powerful form of leadership does not begin with authority or position. Sometimes it begins quietly, with a thought that refuses to disappear.
And instead of letting that thought fade, you give it a place to linger.
