Sci-fi Novel - The Love Algorithm - Part 29

Part 1: Our Sweet Home
Part 2: Love In 12 Minutes
Part 3: Machiavellian Berkan's Concerns
Part 4: Bonanza and His Friends
Part 5: Long-lasted Love
Part 6: Pre-design Battle
Part 7: My Dear Father
Part 8: Video Speech of A Public Enemy
Part 9: A Job Interview
Part 10: The Second Great Attack
Part 11: Big Hopes
Part 12: An Unexpected Disaster
Part 13: Sediment of the Days
Part 14: The Goddess Of Matchmaking, Gülizar
Part 15: Saturday Night Fever
Part 16: Red Alert
Part 17: Writing the Codes of Love
Part 18: Bombastic Folk Singer Ayhan
Part 19: The Drama Of An Ordinary Toy Soldier
Part 20: Phone Call In The Morning
Part 21: The Land of Angry Invoices
Part 22: Last Cliff Before The Bridge
Part 23: The Questionnaire
Part 24: The Cursed Prophet Murphy
Part 25: When Love Hits The Door
Part 26: Among Data Stacks
Part 27: Carefree Souls Gallery
Part 28: Lord Of The Conversation Council

Part 29: The Sound Of Silence

I believe that failure is predictable. Our intuition reaches the leading tremors of bad news before it is conceived by consciousness. When the consciousness does not want to accept the bad news, somewhere deep down, there is a layer of mind that knows what is happening. I'm not suggesting that I have psychic powers; I'm merely talking about the signs. I somehow feel the output from the course of events, the attitudes of people, and the other information that is being pushed into the subconscious when I approach to get the result of an important event. Beautiful things happen suddenly, and the negative consequences are gradually understood by torturing people. You have to accept that that girl doesn't like you, and she will never like you at all, but you can extend your ridiculous game. If you believe you can tolerate failure and rejection, you can ask her directly if she likes you.

However, in most cases, you do not want to ask this question and hear a negative response. Instead, you have proud human poses and try to predict the outcome. Because when that negative response is received, it is necessary to set a new target, to carry out studies on that target, and to witness the destruction of sand castles in mind. Failure often manifests itself in the triangle of silence, loneliness, and disinterest. You feel loneliness badly. You say I wish I didn't want it so much. To make the situation acceptable, you try to think that the final result is not yet achieved, that it can be corrected, or that what you were aiming at is not so important. Of course, these thoughts won't help you much. You will spend your days in a throbbing state of inertia as if you were floating in the space until you enter a new cycle of hope. Your new goal, which will bring you into the next period of faith, is often more modest than the previous one. When you are running towards this new goal, you will be willing to make more significant sacrifices to achieve this time, and you keep things tight.

In fact, by the lessons you learned from your previous failures, you make a detailed plan in which bad scenarios are taken into account. You now believe that you will succeed this time, but in reality, there is no guarantee that anything will happen in the future, including the sunrise the next day.

When we opened Gülizar application equipped with love algorithm to the public, the worst possible scenario took place. At the end of the first day, only twenty users downloaded, and only three of them became members of the platform. Since we hoped that we would reach more people with the marketing activities to be carried out, we did not tell anyone, including folk singer Ayhan, who made our first presentation at the end of the first day.

The next day, we talked to our friends who were trying to develop or market their new ventures and asked them for publicity. We published messages that introduced our application in our social media accounts, and at the end of the first day, we managed to get a few comments about our app. In general, the situation didn't seem to be particularly comforting, and for the past few weeks, Berkan had lost his belief in our venture with his girlfriend Seçil, and fortunately, Deniz kept her faith in our business.

At the end of the second day, the number of people who downloaded our application with new promotions increased to one hundred, but the number of people who were members of our platform did not exceed the fingers of two hands. We didn't have the money to advertise on digital media, so we printed paper ads the size of postage stamps with pictures of Gülizar, and distributed them in regions such as Nişantaşı, Taksim, Kadikoy Square, Shopping Malls, Subway entrances, etc. Berkan has slipped from the job of distributing ads by listing the reasons that our work is illegal, that it pollutes the environment, that he has been exhausted for a long time due to constant work, and instead of arguing with him, we have acted as if we believe in the justifications.

We started to systematically distribute the mini-advertisements that we filled in our backpacks to every place we identified. Someone could have punished our company for polluting the environment, so instead of mass dumping the ads, we were leaving one in every ten steps, so that the pollution we created was not concentrated at any point. We have followed this promotion strategy with determination for a week by taking more than thirty thousand steps each day. I was warned by a few security guards and three or four environmental-sensitive citizens when I was spreading the mini-classifieds, and I took the mini-classifieds I left each time, saying I would never do it again. No one warned Deniz during the week, so she had a more honest look than me.

The number of people using our platform reached seventy at the end of the first week, our algorithm determined three possible matches for these users, but no communication was made between these couples. We were so surprised that we never thought that interest in the platform could be so little. The folk singer Ayhan kept his promise to us with a funny video published on his social media accounts. Even though we spent all our bullets, we could not create the slightest fluctuation in the country's agenda. Berkan advised to shut down the company in no time. I couldn't find the strength to refuse this proposal, so I could say, “Let's wait a little longer.”

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