Category: About Myself

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful” (Margaret J. Wheatley, 2019). Literature has always been a part of my life and now with the help of reflection, I am able to see the impact literary and non-literary text has had on my life. Throughout…

Freedom may be defined in three ways: First, it is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint as when we say that we have the freedom to speak. Second, it is the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved as when one sat, “Finally after three…

I want to be a film director when I grow up… Can you imagine a world without films and television shows? Well, I sure cannot and do not ever want to try. Movies and television shows have always been a large part of my life. I did not have a childhood that looked like most…

For me, art is everywhere, anything or everything that surrounds us is a masterpiece-a work of art indeed, whether it’s an appliance, person, gadget, and all things, that is an art that was made by people, through the talents that god gave us. God gave us these talents in order to showcase our skills, emphasize…

Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment – the literal definition of happy I believe many can agree that happiness determines if one is leading a well-lived life, at least it does for me. Though I once believed that the importance of happiness was overrated, I have come to a realization that I am constantly chasing…

The morning I woke up with a feeling of anxiety, hollowness, and emptiness in me. I was dejected and lost. Something was missing and wrong. I felt like I didn’t belong in this world. My mind was perturbed with a lot of questions. What’s the purpose of my existence? Why I was even born? Why…

Flying across with the wind, letting it carry me across the vast greenery. The vivid green mustard plants set ablaze with hypnotizing yellow-colored petals from its flowers. I run across the dirt, slipping and having reality smacking me with awake from the daydream, in which I flew with the wind, as I held on to…

As I cleaned every corner of the room, I came across a piano. It was rather filthy and dusty, so I began my duty of cleaning, turning the keys pure white. Back in Africa, the white people dumped all their trash near our homes and while I looked through their piles of trash, I spotted…

Personal strengths. We all have a set of personal strengths and weaknesses. These are a person’s everything. These strengths and values are what make each and everyone of us unique. Some strengths and values are more important to us than others, and some we display more than others, but all play their own individual role…

Being Turkish has always been a huge part of my character. As a child, I felt so self-conscious about who I am. I wasn’t taught to feel this way, I just didn’t like how different my life seemed to be compared to the other kids from my school. I had to take ESL classes while…