Last week, two themes kept appearing on my social media feed: the Penguin documentary and the Tarkan concerts. Both touched my heart and stirred many emotions within me. A scene from the Penguin documentary began circulating again: a large penguin colony splits into two, yet one penguin turns away from both groups and walks alone toward the mountains. A movement that contradicts what we “know” about colony-bound penguins. Almost every video asks, “Why did the penguin do this?

Do words have exact equivalents in every language? When we translate from one language to another, do they truly carry the same meaning? And if each person carries a language of their own—an inner language—does a word that sounds the same from the outside really mean the same thing to everyone? I don’t think there is a clear answer to that. What is happiness, really? A state, a feeling… And what about pain or anger?   While working on emotional dysregulation during my master’