Success

Success? So many of us are trapped in that illusion that our societies seem to tell us what is appropriate and what is inappropriate. One day you wake up and believe all that shit is true and you ought to follow that. It is a sort of social schema: a passage of rite. You pass …

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Have you heard of self-defence mechanism? It is a fancy word for being afraid when someone comes too close to get to know you. You might be as friendly as everybody else, because you don’t want to be stood up and differentiated. Just being cool and normal. But when there is someone who wants to …

Ways of Life

It is nice because there are different ways to live a life. I am not sure if my way is OK. Yes, it adds to its niceness.

Prediction for 1999

Does anyone remember Nostradamus prediction for 1999? I remember. I am not sure how old I was when I first heard about it but I am pretty sure I was in elementary school. Probably in upper grade. I did not pay much attention to it at first because I was too young to understand what it …

Unexpected Lessons I Learned from Travelling The World

It’s wonderful how ‘exotic’ things become ‘normal’ things over time when you really open your eyes. Nothing is exotic actually. It’s us who consider things exotic. For natives, it’s just normal. They think you are exotic because you get too exited about things that are nothing to them. Everything has interconnected to each other. We …

Glasses [Megane] (2007)

These are people who met each other in a little village near the beach in one summer. The woman with a long red scarf makes the best red-bean shaved ice. She comes to the village every summer to teach gymnastic-kind-of movements that I had never seen before I watched this film. But that is not her …

Lost in Transition (2003)

When I watched this film for the first time, I thought of the time I spent in Australia when I was 24. In a foreign country, you get lost. Not the way you do at home. You get different sort of information constantly from everywhere. At some point, you just give up and you quickly …

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

I like watching the same movie over and over. I don’t know why but watching the same movie is like visiting an old friend, which I don’t have myself but I assume this is what it would be like. You watched a particular movie when you were a certain age and you thought about it …

Everything Started From One Dream

Everything started from one dream. Somebody said that he saw a desert. He walked in the desert that was thrown in the sun and stood in front of me. He smelt the time of isolated sand: someone that went through the desolation of life all alone. Somebody said that he saw wind. He let his …

Yes

I have always been not so positive since I was a child. As I was growing up, I have put my sadness, darkness, inferiority complex and pessimism in my backpack. Because I should not let them be outside of me. And, I have always kept this backpack on. They usually stay OK inside the backpack …