BookTalk

  'The best things in life are free. Embracing wisdom told by knowing elders doesn’t cost a penny.' Books feel like home. And like every other home we encountered throughout the years, some are welcoming and some are not. You feel the vibes and the energy the moment you enter and meet the people in there. And that’s when you start reading the room as they say ..  the same goes for reading an  actual  book, with  actual  words. You get the feeling of knowing it’s a good journey from the very first sentence. Some sentences are welcoming and others are not. Some sentences make you feel more at home than your physical place of acomodation. That’s when you know, or as the song says, If you  know, you know  ...  Beijing family: By Gina Tang is a book that feels like an actual home. It’s like traveling to a foreign land, not knowing a soul. And that’s when the inhabitants and citizens of that country interfere and make you feel  welcomed by embracing you into their homes as if you

    'Solitude: it’s become my trade. As it requires a certain discipline, it’s a condition I try to perfect. And yet it plagues me, it weighs on me in spite of my knowing it so well'     What do we know about solitude other than it brings endless peace and serenity into our mind and soul?. The peacefulness that is followed by a halo of light that makes you stick to your zone of silence. But not any silence, a special kind of silence where one is obliged to obey and live for oneself regardless of it all. It’s like signing a contract for a lifetime, and leaving is not an option.   We all love our solitude and peace of mind,  I know I do, because it’s a lifestyle of mine. But on the other side of the coin, we're surrounded  by people who might or might not understand this kind of lifestyle.  You can lecture them day and night, but still nothing will change. For they have a stubborn mindset in regards to what they’re doing, which also indicates that no one is right but them. It

  “There is indeed an urgent need to think better right now, but only because it is always necessary to think better and it is always now.” Philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers ..  No decent human being has the audacity to say I’m not into philosophical talks and discussions. For how can you even live your life with the absent of such topics and questions that keep you busy and acquainted all along throughout your day and night? That’s not a possibility or even a reality. If you’re trying to convince yourself that philosophy is far away from real life, then you might as well want to dig deeper into those topics to see for yourself, because life is a philosophical journey on its own. It teaches you things you were blinded of and from. It drags you to the light when all you wanted was to stay in the darkness of your cocoon, it guides you to be and see when all you wanted was to follow the shadow of others.  This is philosophy, the purest form of love, the love of wisdom .. How t

'' If she believes someone is trying to kill her, she's probably right. and I know who that person is '' Remember how we have always been told not to   OBSESS  over things and people for the sake of our own mental health and well-being .. ?. to leave space and distance between us and what we’re actually attached to, physically and mentally. Again for the sake of our own stability and wellness.    You see, it's not an easy thing to do. As a person who is fully committed to her paperbacks and the plot within every publication, I can confirm that my mental stability is in jeopardy due to that kind of attachment. B ut for most of us, that kind of  attachment brings in joy. Even if the publication we devoured in one setting is disturbing, we would still find ourselves in peace and at ease. Unless we have to get back to reality, that's when the intense feeling of being a child left alone on their first day of school will come back.  We all have names popping in ou