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Peak!

One can only wonder 🙂

The writer who shuts himself up in a room and first goes on a journey inside himself will, over the years, discover literature’s eternal rule: he must have the artistry to tell his own stories as if they were other people’s stories, and to tell other people’s stories as if they were his own, for this is what literature is.

A writer talks of things that everyone knows but does not know they know.

I write because I have an innate need to write! I write because I can’t do normal work like other people. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at all of you, angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can only partake in real life by changing it. I write because I want others, all of us, the whole world, to know what sort of life we lived, and continue to live, in Istanbul, in Turkey. I write because I love the smell of paper, pen, and ink. I write because I believe in literature, in the art of the novel, more than I believe in anything else. I write because it is a habit, a passion. I write because I am afraid of being forgotten. I write because I like the glory and interest that writing brings. I write to be alone. Perhaps I write because I hope to understand why I am so very, very angry at all of you, so very, very angry at everyone. I write because I like to be read. I write because once I have begun a novel, an essay, a page, I want to finish it. I write because everyone expects me to write. I write because I have a  childish belief in the immortality of libraries, and in the way my books sit on the shelf. I write because it is exciting to turn all of life’s beauties and riches into words. I write not  to tell a story, but to compose a story. I write because I wish to escape from the foreboding that there is a place I must go but – just as in a dream – I can’t quite get there. I write because I have never managed to be happy. I write to be happy.

Beautiful!

The opening event for the contemporary art exhibition titled "Way in, Way out" by Ethio-Italian painter Yared Olivelli will be held on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at 5:30 pm. The event features the participation of the artist and will take place at the Italian Cultural Institute, located in Piazza near the Semien Hotel. ​Admission to the opening event is free, and parking and light refreshments will be provided for attendees. Following the opening night, the main exhibition will run from June 24 to September 2 (24/06 – 02/09), with standard viewing hours from Monday to Friday, between 9:30 am and 4:00 pm. More information can be found via the official link: https://shorturl.at/oj9FL @linkupaddis

I'm Back... (Still 16 btw) A few days ago, Telegram deleted my account for no reason , and I lost access to my old channel 😭 It was tough, but I'm back with a new energy! This is my brand new channel, and we're gonna make it even better than before... Join the new channel now: @imsanyi Feel free to share it with your friends, audience, and anyone who might enjoy the journey. Your support means everything! Let’s make this one legendary... @imsanyi

Anyone that knows youth organizations here that work on agriculture and food systems, DM me please. Contact: @not_eldana Thanks in advance :)

I think I've been caught up in measuring my worth using other people's metrics. It's not a feeling of innate inadequecy. Its not that I feel deeply incapable or unworthy. No, it's a creeping doubt if I should indeed feel as secure as I do in my skin. The overly analytical part of my brain demands evidence. Justification for self love. Comparison not to find ways in which I'm better than people but ways in which I'm not worse. It's not an ego thing where I wanna be better or the focal point of everything. When I see people doing things I never even thought of doing, I put us on a scale. I weigh myself against them. Constantly recalculating my worth. "Do you still think you're amazing when this person has done this?" my brain asks. Its a mixture of scarcity and meritocratic thinking. Scarcity because of the belief that the emotional "resources" available (love, admiration, respect) are limited. Meritocracy because the belief that only the "best" are owed those so called resources. And I notice that when I see people doing things I admire, I have this instinct to decrease the admiration I have for myself in order to balance the scales, because clearly they deserve it more than I do and clearly its a limited pool. Its not a feeling of jealousy. My envy is drenched in self recalibration instead of a will to have what they do. The drive to weigh myself is not coming from inside but a completely imaginary and fabricated need to control my self image, to be fully aware so that nobody can tell me anything about myself that I don't already know. Its a constant picking and prodding to make sure that it is indeed correct, because if I am to trust myself above all else, I had better be right. But in the same breathe, I know that I am what I am. A completely distinct unique and inimitable individual. There is me and she lives, and breathes, inconsistent sometimes and unmotivated in others but she is alive. I am alive. And I think it's about time that I start measuring myself on my own scale. I just had this spark of feeling that its okay to just be. It doesn't mean you should stay stagnant and not let people motivate you to do better. It means only you get to decide what matters to you and what your metrics are. If you're trying to measure mass in degrees, you're bound to fall short not because you're not enough but because its the wrong damn scale. What do you wanna do? Who do you wanna be? I think those are the more important questions than "Am I worthy?" You are. #thoughtdump

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For people asking me how to get better at art, I wrote this article. Hope it helps :)

A reminder

Hey guys, I'm working on an idea around helping people get support for projects they want to build through community feedback and community backing. Basically this is the idea. Founders submit their projects on a public portal with a clear goal and full budget breakdown. The community can openly question and refine those budgets before anything moves forward. After that, projects are voted on and the strongest ones are selected for a live meetup where they pitch directly to the community. Funding is fully peer-to-peer and works on an all-or-nothing model. People pledge support in cash or in resources like skills, tools, or connections. If a project reaches its target within a short collection window, the funds are released and the project moves forward. If not, no money is taken. Every funded project is held accountable through public updates, receipts, and final outcome reports, creating a permanent transparent record of what was built and what was delivered. It's still very early, but I'm looking for a few people who think it's interesting and would like to help build it. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, let me know. I'd love to chat.😊😊 DM me at @Nazrawitb

On Elections - Yap Moment (unedited)

Voted and done :)