Opportunities will always come our way, it's up to us to evaluate.

I am just one of the billions of people who believe in this prayer, "If God closes one door, he will definitely open another."

I think that living conditions affect the opportunities that come our way, new opportunities do not appear unless we really get down to the level of neediness or need something very much. When we need it most, different and unexpected opportunities can be presented to us one after the other.

For example, unless we lose our job, we either don't come across new job opportunities or the opportunities do not attract our attention. Since many evaluations will fly in our minds from the moment we become unemployed, we produce ideas about what we can do with all our attention and try to use our opportunity talent.

Instead of exemplifying this further, I would like to tell you a short story, it is a real life and I personally know the person here and this person is not alive right now.

Mustafa, who started his business life at the age of 15 and passed as a construction worker until the age of 40, was taken to the Hospital by calling an ambulance due to a severe and unbearable pain that started on his right side while working in a construction at the age of 40. As a result of the examinations and evaluations made here, it is revealed that he has a serious kidney disease.

Since he will have a long and tiring treatment process, his doctor tells him that continuing to work in construction will further his discomfort. You can predict or know how heavy construction work will be.

Upon this, Mustafa, who is in deep thoughts with his wife, thinks about the house he is responsible for taking care of, his wife and 2 children. Since he is 40 years old and has never worked in any profession before, it is difficult to find a new job, he does not even apply for many jobs because he is aware of this.

He has started treatment, but his mind is still preoccupied with thoughts about how to support his home. His house has a large garden, that is the first thing that comes to mind, and thoughts about what he can do there pass both in his mind and in front of his eyes like a storyboard.

The idea has settled in his head, he starts working on "seedling breeding". The next day, he arranges the garden and prepares the suitable area for growing the seedlings. Since citrus and fig trees are the most grown tree species in the region where he lives, he starts with citrus seedlings. It plants seeds and small saplings of citrus species such as orange, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon into bags and pots. After a while, it starts to prepare the seedlings on a weekly and monthly basis, and divides the seedlings planted every month or week into classes according to their development. When it is time to sell the first seedlings, they do not have any difficulty in selling because they set their prices below the market value.

In the following days he grows more seedlings, when they are sold he grows more and owns tens of thousands of seedlings. With some of the money he earned from the sales, he buys a vacant land, makes it suitable, and plants tangerine seedlings from his own citrus varieties. On the one hand, it continues to grow seedlings and on the other hand, it meets the needs of the tangerine garden it has created.

When the tangerine trees growing in the garden grow, he earns an unthinkable amount of money from there, buys new gardens and plants different species such as oranges, tangerines and lemons. Moreover, he does not pay any extra money because he grows the seedlings himself, he never stops growing seedlings, and thanks to the trees grown in the gardens he buys, the values he buys have increased hundreds of times and he makes extra profits thanks to the fruits grown every year.

Now a construction worker, Mustafa is happy to have millions, while he was struggling to support his family when he was a construction worker. Despite the kidney transplant, Mustafa died at the age of 65 from multi-organ failure as a result of increasing discomfort due to the body's rejection.

If it were not for his illness, Mustafa would have continued to work in construction and would not have been able to discover the way to the top from where he was, his bad situation forced him to take different ideas and new initiatives. The fact that he produced a different perspective and created an opportunity for himself when he was in a difficult situation caused him and his family to have better days.

I want to repeat the first sentence I said. “When God closes one door, he will surely open another.” There is no such thing as despair in an ongoing life, and hope exists even in our worst times, he just wants us to try to see it and seek it out. Maybe he wants attention and to be revealed from his hiding place, and when we do this, we can change both his own and those around us.

..it shouldn't be too hard to uncover what's there.

Things may not always go as smoothly as in this short story, but opportunities will always come our way, our duty is to act with a positive mindset and knowledge in order to evaluate them.

Thank you for reading.