A Journal of My Thoughts

( EN ) - Ha! Another year comes to an end! ... When I look back, I feel as if the year went by so quickly. Take this photo I took, for example: the time stamp shows the date as Saturday, Jan 7, 2017 at 7:05 pm. But I remember it like it was just a week ago... Yeah, yeah, I know: this is how we perceive time when we look back, especially as we get older ... :) But still... Either way, 2018 is just around the corner and I wonder how you feel about it. You know, we, humans, like to have a closure. Hence, we tend to have one -or several- when we near the end of the year. So, how do you feel? Any resolutions? Any big plans? Any promises to stop doing this or start doing that? Any personal goals to help improve your life? Well, as for me... I love new beginnings! Not just the start of a new year, but all beginnings; every morning is included. So, I don't have any big plans. In fact, I don't plan my life anymore. I just try to live one day at a time. I may not be th...

( ¹ ) ( EN ) - Thanks to my dear friend, I watched this movie sooner than I thought. And I'm glad that we did! As for the movie, I'm not sure how to describe it, but it certainly is an interesting one. Here, let me share, both my opinion and one of the reviews² of this movie which I find quite close how I felt about it: We all know what comfort zone means and how it makes us feel: safe and at ease. Be that as it may, we need to be aware of its limiting outcomes. Because, comfort zones yield only acceptable results, which is to say that when we choose to live in our comfort zones mostly, then we generally leave innovation and creativity outside, that we go on doing things the way we usually do, as if we're on autopilot. But, when we dare or are forced to leave these comfort zones, it's highly possible that we may face difficulties at first, but then we may very well be positively surprised to see its immense transforming power on ourselves as well as on our live...

👉 Türkçe'si Aşağıda 👇 ( EN ) - I love this man! Neil deGrasse Tyson: he is one of my favourite astrophysicists; not mainly because of his credentials, but especially because of his easy and captivating manners in which he elucidates astronomical phenomena, that he makes them all look simple enough for us to understand whereas they are in reality way more complex. In many of his conferences, talk shows or interviews, he talks about anything related to space and its basic laws or he explains really complicated theories we're yet to understand. He doesn't only help us making sense of these astrophysical subjects, but he also popularises them that are otherwise comprehended by just a selected few. Take this talk show, hosted by Robert Krulwich on June 2017, for  example. Actually the original talk is longer than this video but I specifically used this one to show how he explains Quantum Physics and tesseract in such a simple way that even a 5 year old child could mak...

👉 Türkçe'si Aşağıda 👇 ( EN ) - Here is the million-dollar question, folks! What, exactly, is time? Ah, yes, yes... We all know what time is; it's either the ticking of a clock or a day on the calendar. It's something we deal with everyday, something that we all think we understand. But do we really? No, not really. I've checked it and believe me, there are millions of facts and theories out there, but again there's not one clear answer yet... Neither from scientists nor from philosophers... Now... where did this come from, you may ask? Funny but it's true; through a 2014 movie, Interstellar. Sure, I watched it then, when it was in theatres and loved it. But I forgot it completely up until yesterday. In fact, it wasn't the movie that got me here. No, I didn't watch the movie again. It was the video essay that I've come across -the one that I posted¹ here too. After I watched it, it got me thinking... For starters, it made me realise that...

👉 Türkçe'si Aşağıda 👇 (EN) - We may think of music as an entertainment, which it obviously is, but surely that's not all there is to it. First and foremost, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow put it, it's the universal language of mankind. It's a unifying force that brings people together with ease. It builds such a bond between people that neither walls nor boundaries stand a chance. However, its power isn't limited to its unifying or binding influence on us. Music also heals... not our souls only; but it heals literally. As many scientific studies show, we now know that music has tremendous power over our minds which relates to our well being. One article¹ explains that music is profoundly important to those with motor and impulsive disorders; such as patients with Parkinsonism or Tourette's syndrome. The author says that these patients may overcome their disorders of timing when they are exposed to the regular tempo and rhythm of music. However, he adds, ...

👉 Türkçe'si Aşağıda 👇 (EN) - As Eckhart Tolle puts it, there's no past other than it's being a memory, or no future other than it's being an anticipation in our minds. Now is all there is to live ... the past gives us an identity and the future holds the promise of a fulfilment but both are illusions that are being constructed as thoughts in our brains over and over again in time. We need to learn to make peace with our past and need to learn to let go of our worries for the future. Life is unpredictable, I know. And more often than not, it doesn't go the way we plan it or the way we would like it to go. No matter how hard we try to control every aspect of our lives, we simply can't since we never know what comes next. However, this doesn't mean that we have to live our lives like leaves blowing in the wind. NO. We certainly resist the wind. Though we shouldn't resist life itself, especially when life brings a change. On such times, the more we...

👉 Türkçe'si Aşağıda 👇 "Happiness doesn't get magically bestowed on us. It's a skill we need to practice each and every day." -Paul Minors ... (EN) - I've read a blog¹ recently and I loved it. The author is Paul Minors. I don't know how old he is but from the looks of him, he is still young yet he seems wise beyond his years. The article I've come across was about happiness and I'm going to share his thoughts here. He starts his blog by asking if you've ever met anyone who's always happy, who's overwhelmingly positive or if you ever think that there's a secret to happiness. He doesn't know if there's a secret to happiness but he surely knows his way of getting closer to finding his own "secret" to happiness. "It starts with your definition of happiness" he says. "The key is to have a clear idea of what happiness means for you and to take deliberate action towards this definition." he ...