A Book Jumper and other things

Book fanatic | Poetry here and there | Random musings | Lazy Days | Tea (always) | and all the other lovely things in the world. Ps- My header’s language is Turkish.

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Virginia Woolf, The Years

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This is an actual poem written by Sultan Süleymann, (An Ottoman Sultan in the middle ages) for his love, Hürrem Sultan 💞.

Such a heart melting poem, I can just imagine how he misses and wishes to see her while he was at war. This makes me believe that love is real, love can conquer all. Love is love throughout the ages, no matter which generation you belong to. No matter how much happiness or pain love causes, it is unavoidable. 💌

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OUTLANDER: FIRST SEASON LOCKSCREENS

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We Need Compassion.

Competition. Competition. Competition. 

I hear this word a hundred times, probably in a day. Especially when the topic of discussion is careers or the present job market. There are thousands of jobs available but ten thousand overqualified millennials to fill them up. But then again, with ten thousand options employers can choose from, what could they even do? Choosing the right candidate is a stressful job, but I think in this mayhem-- it is becoming harder to be compassionate to that potential candidate. 

I saw this post somewhere on the internet that a candidate came ten minutes late for her interview. The interviewee was disappointed and told her that she did not take the job seriously, and refused to interview her. The candidate started tearing up and told him that the reason she was late was because her mother had died today and begged to be interviewed. He apologized and agreed to take a bet on her. She aced the interview and has been doing well at the company for a few years now. With the crazy competition in the world, employers tend to forget that humans are not robots. And I think someone who is the epitome of perfection may just be a good looking cookie that will crumble in your hand (stupid analogy; but then again, this whole piece might end up stupid...).

Yes, I agree to the fact that life is not easy and you do not just get what you want so easily. It takes a lot of dedication, persistence and hard work to prove yourself to be worth something. I do not want to argue that point, nor am I lazy or want things quick without working for it. But, in many ways, I still think that we need to be kinder. The problem is that, even when there is one mistake made by someone, they are utterly rejected even though the employer might have misunderstood them. College graduates are tested in every unrealistic way possible by the responsibilities and commitments around them. Most entry-level jobs nowadays need at least a year or two years experience... I think that is utterly insane because how can an entry-level job ask something like that from a recent college graduate? There are even many internships that demand certain work experience as well. It is a paradox because aren’t these positions supposed to be there to enhance work experience? Employers, I would request you to be a bit more sensible than that! 

Compassion is not only nonexistent in the job market, but it is nonexistent in many other areas of life. We expect everybody around us to be a certain way, behave a certain way and we shun those who seem different or awkward in society. I know a friend of mine who had to go to meet another friend at church. She was a few minutes late because she had dropped off her sister last night and slept around 1am. Now, she had to meet this friend really early, plus she lived an hour and a half away. The friend got really mad due to that and even after she explained her situation, the friend didn’t try to understand... 

These stories frustrate me because it scares me about where we are heading to as a society. We just want people to fulfill everyone’s every wish and if that doesn’t happen; then people reject that person. Yes, we all have responsibilities towards each other to be on time and not waste other people’s time, but, we also need a bit of trust in our society and try to understand why the other person is behaving the way he/she is.  

We neither trust each other, nor do we have any compassion for them. Everybody is fearful that someone would break their trust and hence that leaves us to misunderstand everybody and have no compassion for the ones in front of us. Hence, this is something that I think should be changed in our society. We need to interact with each other in order to build that trust, have compassion for somebody who may be different. Take the risk to take a chance on the people who may seem like they are imperfect for the job. (with some common sense, though.)

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Life Update.

I am sorry I haven’t been on this blog (or my other religious blog!) as much as I would really want to. This blog was supposed to be for my poems, self-created gifs, thoughts, book reviews and some random stuff. But, it’s just that I have been going through a lot for such a long time. And because of how life has engaging me with other things, I was not able to focus on my writing or my insights on religion. First of all, I am almost graduating college and it is going to be my last semester (YAY!) and I am planning to apply for grad school. So there is good stuff I am awaiting for and I am putting in work into my education. 

But, ever since my last post-- A LOT OF THINGS CHANGED. A lot of people think that my life has been easy. That I only have to study and don’t need to work at the same time like other people (Which is a blessing). And a lot of people look up to me that I am a confident person who has things always going my way. But this is such a wrong idea to be thinking about anyone because nobody knows how much struggle that person has gone through to get to where they are. How many sleepless nights, anxious thoughts and getting back up they had to do to get that grade, or to get the confidence that they have in themselves now. Life is not an easy breeze for anyone and I think no one should be in that perception about others just because they do not see the struggle behind all of those smiles. For me, a lot changed in a year. My parents left for India and I am starting to live on my own for the first time. That means, I have to take care of myself, my food, my studies, etc. everything on my own for the first time. Because of issues with adjusting in the beginning, I had moved 3 times because of the crazy roommate situations I dealt with. I also had my student visa application rejected when it was MY LAST SEMESTER and I had to go back to India. That was an emotional rollercoaster for me. While dealing with actually living alone and being independent-- I learnt a few hard lessons in finding who my real friends are and who are not (honestly most of them I hardly talk to). And also, because of feeling lonely and a lack of structure compared to how it used to be, I started having trouble sleeping, anxiety issues and other health problems.

But I want to say that despite all of this, I was able to get support from my true friends who stuck around. And I am in a much better place now. I have a really good place to live where my roommates are amazing. I did get my student visa back. I am finally graduating and moving on the next step. And I am getting the hang of being independent, despite my feelings of loneliness at times. I am also attempting to start my own Youtube channel with one of my close friend! (Check out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIVQNwz-6LxJZDEZyR2Qstg)  And with all of this, I also want to focus on my writing more than I did! Despite everything that happened, I have not given up on life and I want to see the positive things in the way life as taught me lessons, took some things away from me and gave some of them back to me. So I am very grateful for the struggle and I do not want to underestimate it or let anyone underestimate it by saying that I had an easy life! 

Now that things have calmed down a bit, I want to keep goals for myself that I will focus more on blogging-- which means posting more here and my other blog, my Instagram Book Photography page and my Youtube channel that I newly created. I want to focus on my writing and creative expression as well. Which is a struggle for me to have when I have a thousand assignments to do for school. So, now since I don’t have that pressure anymore, I think I will be able to do things better and be consistent. 

So, I want to say that if you feel like you’re going through a dump in your life, I want to encourage you to hang on there and stay strong! Life is tough and will give you many challenges. But as time goes on, life goes on and things WILL GET BETTER. And if it isn’t then, there must be a reason. There must be something that life wants to teach you and you should just take a deep breath and not get overwhelmed. Once that’s done, you try to find a solution with a calm head. Being calm is so important and with anxiety, I am learning to keep calm. If you’re someone going through this, then I think this post is a sign for you. 

Again, people do not realize how much I went through and judge me by my smiles and think my life is great. But in order for that smile to stay on my face, I had to cry many times. 

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Found this really cozy-ly put discount book store in Philadelphia in a middle of a quiet neighborhood! . . . The books were so cheap too! Bought a hardback for $3 and paperback for $2!!!! If you have the chance, you should visit this place! All the money goes to Friends of the Free Library! ✨🔥📖 #keepreading #keepreadingbooks #bookstoresofinstagram #bookstoresoftheworld #bookstagram #stayhungrystayfoolish (at Book Corner) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqs3cuIndRt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7hod2nhnp2wp

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There’s always a reason for why people do what they do. It may look absolutely insane or irrational. But behind they have a deeper reason and we should respect and understand that.

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The beauties of a poem are best known by the critic. What does the author know? The beauties of a woman are known only to her husband. What does a father know?

An Unknown Telugu Poet, Excerpt from A Southern Music by T.M. Krishna

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Reply to your last text.

Dear heartbreaker,

I should have said this to you a long time ago. But realisation comes slow to me in the matters of love.

Yes, I cherished my time with you. But I don’t think you realise how much I was heartbroken when you stopped talking to me like you used to.

As if we didn’t have anything bet-ween us. As if I was no-one. And that hurt me the most.

Yes, you were young but I was young too. It was my first time with a guy.

Didn’t you realise that? Why is it that you blame my current lover for what you did to me.

Don’t blame him, blame yourself and blame me too.

I wish you had continued to talk to me. Even if the spark faded between us, I wish we could’ve stayed friends.

I wish I knew more about you.

I wish I understood those secrets that you hide in those eyes.

Don’t you realise, even now, how much you broke my heart?

You were my first love, my first kiss.

You meant everything to me back then.

And I still care the same way now like I used to.

But it seems like you won’t let me.

All these years. And now.

I had so much pain thinking about you, wanting your warmth around me.

I was young and sometimes shy and maybe due to my inexperience I did not properly give you what you wanted.

At the same time, I didn’t get what I wanted as well.

The sunsets of today still reminds me of those summer evenings with you.

Don’t you realise that after you, I had lost so much faith in love?

I was unable to recover from what I had lost.

But, yet, I still wish the best for you.

I still wish you had texted me.

Asked me if I was okay.

Asked me if I was well and alive.

I wish you cared for me a little bit.

I know you did those few times, but my longing for you never stopped.

You being my first love made me see you in every one of my lover’s faces and I couldn’t continue with them.

Please come back?

Please talk to me and ask me just this once if I am all right?

Love,

The girl you met nine summers ago.

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West, East

By: Kamran Ali

In the West, I hear the honking of cars

In the East, I hear the cooing of birds

In the West, strangers walk by

In the East, a friend comes by

In the West, I choke from the pollution of cars

In the East, I choke from the dust of sands

In the West, I gaze at the city lights

In the East, I gaze at Head-Marala’s might

In the West, I’m bitter alone

In the East, I’m bitter alone

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Shame

By: Kamran Ali

When they tell me,

That love is a sin

I reply, “Is God a sinner?”

With silence, I dawdle away.

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Liberated Obsession

Lost in the wilderness of my own fate,

To you, was my heart a possession, I debate.

I kept wandering here and there looking for that same love.

Those vines grew until I was an adult.

Forgot about it and had moved on to another

But we all crashed together and it felt like there was no other,

Kept a wilderness for a decade

To you, it was all fake.

All for love, I did everything to run after:

Altered, cut, chained and bruised.

Then the wilderness tangled me in my own aghast.

Kept searching for that same love when young,

But concluded that it was a mask.

I wanted closure, I had none.

This Christmas was my miracle,

The snow in the city and my liberated obsession:

A first time phenomenon.

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