The Dark Black Book

 'All my life, I have missed the fun I could give to myself' she said to herself. Maybe she does not know that attention is scarce and not easily gotten even if it was available. Attention was a way of saying 'I am here', 'I see you', and 'I hear you'. It is something that comes willingly and helplessly and should be given selflessly. It does not have any price attached to it, so why should it be expensive? Well, when you seek from someone who has it but is unwilling to give it, then it becomes expensive; a price is placed on it, something valuable. The effort put into convincing them that you need this attention, that you truly deserve it is the price. The effort is the price. The time dedicated to proving that you are worthy of the attention is also a price. The dignity you stand to lose in the process of dedicating your time and effort is something you can never get back. This is also a price that is been paid. Everything is lost in the process. Time,...

 Meeting several people in life, different cultures, traditions, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and mindsets - everything different. The way we perceive things, and the way we accept changes, makes everyone unique.     "Insan cok zor" - "Humans are difficult", I always, say but it is not in a negative way, it is a way to say we are different in all that we do and that the choices we make affect our actions; this affects the people around us who try to understand us. Some get it, some fail to understand.     The truth - The truth is that we cannot please anyone with our lifestyle, whether we are decent or not, people always have something to say. We have to accept, we can accept it. Humans are built that way. We are built to create and adapt (which means to accept anything either gradually or suddenly). God understood change and creation, and that is the reason why he made his very own - man (made in the image of God) to understand, accept, and create.     L...