"Indefinite attitudes to the future explain what’s most dysfunctional in our world today. Process trumps substance: when people lack concrete plans to carry out, they use formal rules to assemble a portfolio of various options. This describes Americans today. In middle school, we’re encouraged to start hoarding “extracurricular activities.” In high school, ambitious students compete even harder to appear omnicompetent. By the time a student
gets to college, he’s spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for
a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he’s ready—for nothing in particular.
A definite view, by contrast, favors firm convictions. Instead of pursuing many-sided mediocrity and calling it “well-roundedness,” a definite person determines the one best
thing to do and then does it. Instead of working tirelessly to make herself indistinguishable, she strives to be great at something substantive—to be a monopoly of one. This is not what young people do today, because everyone around them has long since lost faith in a definite world. No one gets into Stanford by excelling at just one thing, unless that thing happens to involve throwing or catching a leather ball."
- Ancak kendi kurduğun gerçekten senindir kutlu, ve, kutsaldır. . .
Gau no more ın the biller glass.
Beloved, gau iıı tlıine own lıeart, The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branclıes start, And all the tremb/ing flowers they bear.
Yeats, "The Two Trees"
Bakma artık acılı aynaya.
Sevdiğim, kendi yüreğine bak, Kutsal ağaç orada yetişir;
Neşeden çıkar kutsal dalları,
Ve bütün titrek çiçekleri, taşıdıkları.
Hangi tür kitapları seviyorsun?
🔎 Polisiye
💕 Romantik
🚀 Bilim Kurgu
🏰 Fantastik
📖 Klasik
🧠 Kişisel Gelişim
🏛️ Tarih
😱 Gerilim
Naked as paper to start
But in twenty-five years she'll be silver,
In fifty, gold.
(The Applicant)
sana bu mektubu erkek eliyle öldürülmüş
bir kadının mezarı başından yazıyorum
isimler her an değişebilir rakamlar güncellenebilir:
mesela münevver mesela emine mesela alara
şaşırdın mı hadi ama bunları kafana takma
bir balta ne işe yarar
uzman görüşüne başvuralım herkesin huzurunda
-etek boyuna göre ayarlanmış coğrafya:
atlar yerlerini aldı ve start verildi
mahallenin gençleri böyle tespih sallamayı nereden öğrendi
doksan üç model şahine atlayıp son ses müzik dinlemeyi
gömleğin daralabilir köşenin tutulabilir
lafın atılabilir olma özelliğini
utanma avcı ve toplayıcı kültürü tek tıkla sepete ekle
son hızla kapına getir
"I’d decided that I was going to stop dressing like a princess and start
dressing like a queen."
'Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.
She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond.
According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal.
Maybe that was the real life lesson.
