{"id":2488,"date":"2026-09-21T19:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:42:55","slug":"bugunu-kaybedemem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/bugunu-kaybedemem\/","title":{"rendered":"I Cannot Lose Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"yd-article\">\n<p>My younger son was six years old.<\/p>\n<p>One weekend, he turned to us and said with complete seriousness:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot lose today\u2026 I need to play more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a child, play is more than a way to pass the time.<\/p>\n<p>It is a way to learn, explore, laugh and imagine.<\/p>\n<p>At that young age, he taught me a very big lesson:<\/p>\n<p>Life is today.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2026 plans for the future, dreams, goals\u2026 All of these are possibilities.<br>But \u201ctoday\u201d is real, tangible and the greatest treasure we have to live.<\/p>\n<p>Watching him play, I saw how his attention was entirely absorbed in the game, while mine kept drifting towards tomorrow. His laughter and curiosity belonged to that day.<\/p>\n<p>What my son said that day became a small but powerful reminder for me: do not lose today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not lose today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday is gone\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is a dream.<\/p>\n<p>So what is today?<\/p>\n<p>What do you do to avoid losing today?<\/p>\n<aside style=\"margin-top:32px;padding:22px;border-left:3px solid #007f9a;background:#eff7f8;\"><strong>This article on LinkedIn<\/strong><p style=\"margin:8px 0 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tr.linkedin.com\/posts\/cezmi-aytekin-0bb870a_k%C3%BC%C3%A7%C3%BCk-o%C4%9Flum-6-ya%C5%9F%C4%B1ndayd%C4%B1-bir-hafta-sonu-activity-7369619801595432963-DkPg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View the original LinkedIn post \u2192<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six-year-old child\u2019s wish to play offers a lesson about the value of today.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kisisel-gelisim","category-makaleler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yalindonusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}