A Strange Feeling

By Sümeyra Emektar

According to philosophers of the recent period, in terms of defining our opinions and stance this is a 'Post-Truth' period where rather than objective realities, the individual realities are more important. This era is a period where instead of the stories of 'great people' the stories of social media are a determinative. Principally, in our culture this situation is welcomed with the conception that 'every individual is a universe.' In this respect, this book is basically the story of revealing personal understanding, emotions and vitality by reading. Tolstoy said every story begins when 'a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.' As described by Tolstoy, this book is the result of the author's grueling journey and pain of trying to adjust to a new city. Consequently, the author is sometimes weary, sometimes angry, while sometimes hopeful to an extent. This book serves as the first steps in the pursuit of a personal truth amidst an array of emotions.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sümeyra Emektar
• Release date: Feb 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9786254093128

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A STRANGE FEELING

Notes on Life

Sümeyra Emektar

A STRANGE FEELING!

Notes on Life

Sümeyra Emektar

Illustration, Saliha Başarır Topcu

©February 2021, Ankara

ISBN 978-625-409-312-8

This work has been published as an e-book. All publishing rights of this book belongs to Sümeyra Emektar. All rights reserved. Except for short quotations for promotion, it cannot be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any way without the author's consent or knowledge

SÜMEYRA EMEKTAR

The author was born in 1987 in Çankırı, and completed her primary and high school education in Ankara. Emektar passed the Mathematics department of Uludağ University in 2005 and worked as a teacher at various institutions after university. She wrote and directed two theater plays during and after her time in university. In addition to these, she was also interested in film and photography. Her articles were published in various journals. She is still continuing her distinguished work in the literary path.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Everyone Is Born with Their Own Opinions

The Offended Gate

A Spell of Fate or Seal of Willpower?

Repetitive Words

Discipline of the Past is the Morals of the Present

Do You Know What Strangeness is?

Lost Fear

What does a Person Have Apart from His Intention?

Anticipating (or not)!

The Heart Remains Moist Because He Is Tearful

Be Holy Like Water, Be Clear Like Water

Cities and Poems

Inviting Chaos/After Death

A Youth’s Hope

Human Disposition

In Conclusion

To My Sisters, Kübra and Zeliha, and My Brother Yusuf Ziya…

Foreword

Dear reader, my writing adventure began at a very early age, as awareness in my emotions increased, my pen also became emotional. I wanted to bellow the truths accumulated with my experiences in life. When I decided to explain myself in this way, my tongue silenced and my pen began to write.

As I conveyed the lessons I learnt from any previous periods to the present, the mysteries began to unveil, and as the mysteries were uncovered my awareness increased. I began to take personal notes then one day, in one of the most bitter periods in my life my pen became emotional. Writing for me always meant getting lost in a flow, but this time I did not want to disappear and these verses emerged.

This book is based on the notes and boundaries of a person. The chapters are both dependent and independent from one another. Disputes based on matters including fate, willpower, clarity, discipline, death, the city and poems. the topics differ from one another, just like the two corners of a puzzles are different. Only when the pieces are put together does the true picture begin to appear; in the same way, when the book is considered on a whole, then the only thing interpreted is being a human.

This book emerged by binding, one