My Greatest Passions: Literature, Poetry, and Art

 

Although I am passionate about literature, art, and poetry, my wife is the biggest passion in my life. In 1994, after I published the student newspaper "Ant," I stopped the newspaperpublication because I wanted to post a literary magazine. While I was studying at the Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, had been selling lecture notes to cover my school expenses. At that time, I announced to the magazine I would publish at the university, so "Bengisu" Literature Magazine's adventure started like this.

Afterward, the journal was published in the first four issues as "Bengisu Poetry Magazine" in bookstores and on different university campuses. It was the size of a small pocketbook; therefore, the magazine was straightforward. I founded a poetry community with the magazine staff. In addition, we became members of the Student Culture Center Literature Club. We organized the Istanbul University Literature festivals, interviews, panels, theatre, music, and poetry. Publishing was hard because we were publishing the magazine by ourselves.

Moreover, we were selling and distributing. However, all my friends in the "Bengisu" poetry community worked devotedly for this magazine. Many times, together with my friend who draws the magazine pictures, we transported magazines to the printing house and the office from the ramp. We even did bookbinding together with the group members. Everyone embraced the Bengisu magazine; hence, all the group members supported the material and spiritual work of the magazine.

At the same time, in the first issue, only poems were included in the magazine's content, and the content of the magazine was enriched with a serious and objective approach. In our fifth issue, we further increased the range and produced a new magazine with ideas from friends. We wrote stories and essays; we conducted interviews. We were included in Speaking of Readers' letters and products; specifically, we discussed with Ahmet Altan and Can Yücel; moreover, both were famous poets and writers in Turkish literature and poetry.

One crucial point: publishing and developing magazines by your own means was challenging. In contrast, it was another challenge to sustain such activity after graduation. The magazine's last issue was not published after the interview with the great poet Can Yucel. Now, I want to share a tragicomic situation about my publishing life. I was tried and sentenced for not making the magazine's legal application. Even though the journal was a university publication, it was naturally legal. Whereas our magazine was only an oppositional literary culture and art magazine, I was punished. This was a sign of how little unfair the situation of human rights in Turkey was in the '90s. This negatively affected the five years of my life and maybe afterward. I started working after I graduated from the university. While continuing my career, I also performed culture and art radio programs on private radio channels. I also organized poetry and music shows in public and private theatres. My passion for culture and art continued, and I enjoyed these activities. I invited dozens of actors, writers, musicians, painters diverse guests to my radio programs, and we had art-filled chats with them. I organized shows with many artists and achieved my targets.

Finally, in 2016, I contacted a critical publishing editor and said I wanted to publish my poems. I posted my poetry book from the publishing company he owned. I shared my poetry book with you on the blackboard. My poetry book includes the poems I wrote to my wife, to my biggest passion in life, during and after university. As I said at first, even though we die, the poems I wrote to the woman I love passionately will remain forever.

Creativity, the basic mood and behavior triggers: Boredom and wonder

 What is the first thing we do when we get bored while waiting in line at the grocery store or travelling? We think about how many calls were left on our phone, how much appreciation on Instagram and other social media accounts, or why our order is so late. The most critical factor that triggers boredom is wonder. Boredom and wonder may seem like very different moods, but they are two very close moods. I will now describe these two words, which are very close to each other, by comparing them. We all know that boredom and wonder can show differences and similarities in primary mental states, namely human health, creativity, and behaviour.

Many business and social life concepts have changed in today's technology age. Globalization changes our economic and social life. The best example is that technology companies use people without paying to develop their products in exchange for the services they provide on the Internet. For example, the concept of business has changed a lot nowadays. Technology companies providing different communication tools influence our mental world, creativity, and behaviour and direct our inner world with boredom concepts.

Boredom can contribute to creativity by stimulating the desires of our core soul. When the renowned psychologist Eric Fromm said that man is an animal to solve his existence, he realized he was facing boredom. This state of mind has sometimes positively affected the person's behaviour and enabled him to act toward the stimulus. The person who enters into the struggle with this internal conflict tries to find a way out of his boredom. "Boredom is, at its simplest, a form of desire turned back upon itself, resulting in the inability to act in any purposeful or happy manner" (Kingwell, 2019, para. 9). While boredom puts people in addictive moods, it can also strengthen awareness. We can think that this situation is comfortable for the addict. At least they are aware of what the problems are. With the intense mood of boredom, people raise many questions about themselves. Instead, these questions he creates are the answers he seeks in his existential conflict. When we are bored, our thoughts sometimes oscillate between life and death. These questions trigger our thoughts with boredom and then awaken creativity. All this confronts the human with the problem of life and death and reveals creativity. Many physical and spiritual environments have pushed scientists to philosophical ideas throughout history. Boredom triggers philosophical thought; that is, it activates; thus, human behaviour's creative capacity increases and the human brain is occupied with existential questions. "Wonder is usually considered uplifting, while boredom is thought enervating, but perhaps there is a closer affinity here than we usually imagine" (Kingwell, 2019, para. 14). As technology and the Internet developed, we all became dependent on phones, which is the disease of our age. Trying to get away from boredom, we are putting ourselves in boredom. We reactivate our emotions every time we look at the phone. If boredom is a mood we need to get out of, what might we need to get rid of? The funnier it is to see people moving to the right with their hands all the time, the harder it is to resist.

Wonder has been one of human history's most complex and spiritual states, contributing to scientific accounts from the first human being. The best example is that it has caused great philosophical thinkers to come out of the complex moods that lead them to question research and develop creative and new theories. "Was he moved to look up because of the dullness of mundane life around him? Thales found much to fascinate him in the ordinary world. Still, he was overwhelmingly fetched by the distant mysteries of the stars and the familiar feeling—an early antecedent to Kant's notion of the sublime—of our insignificance in the universe around us" (Kingwell, 2019, para. 14). The human brain is sensitive to every action and emotional activity that occurs around it. Therefore, every emotion stabilizing or activating the human brain goes back and forth in an impact response variation.

In this emotional intensity, wonder has such an effect that it can turn much stagnation into hell. Boredom can suddenly turn into such behaviour that we may not mind it. Our brain, lost in boredom, can reveal a creative and incredible emotional universe with the emotion we call wonder. Wonder is the most fundamental concept in our individual and group behaviour. The main reason for this is that we are human. As we all know, humans are social beings that think and question simultaneously. Wonder is the most fundamental factor affecting our behavioural psychology in social communities. We can say this for every action and behaviour we remember from childhood. The behavioural paradox between wonder and boredom gives us many personality traits. In the last two decades, which we call the technology century, wonder has been one of the essential elements of the founders of many technology companies' creativity and emotion universes. When these elements, wonder, technology, moods, and creativity, come together, they can destroy the existing theories of the past and challenge the old generation with the successes we call the new generation. Wonder can improve people's mental health because boredom can trigger our creativity by positively affecting our mental health. In this way, it can enable people to dream and to be creative and problem-solving. You might be surprised when these happen because they can have revolutionary consequences. Also, boredom and wonder can come together to improve human mental health. Some values of societies with ancient historical backgrounds prove this. The best example of this is yoga and meditation.

As a result, boredom and wonder have a very close relationship regarding differences in human moods, creativity, and behaviour when compared. I recommend that you not ignore someone because if someone is missing from our lives, this may cause disruptions in the development of our mental health and the emotional universe. Even some essential stones in human history development may fail, and our minds and ways of dealing with experiences may deteriorate. Think about the time you spend in boredom the next time, and do not forget that this universe may be right for you and that every step you take with wonder will reach new worlds and planets. Perhaps we will discover heaven with stones that hell is friends with. Why not? Ask yourself why you did not think about this before. 

 

                                                Reference

 

Kingwell M. (2019). Why being bored is good. The Walrus. Retrieved from https://thewalrus.ca/why-being-bored-is-good/

 

 

 

After you die, what happens?

 Do you think about death? After you die, what happens? How does your love's life change? What will they do after your die? You do not wonder. Besides, you do not want to think about this later because you have no life after that. So you should be upset! If you die, they can not hug you and touch you. Therefore, you can say sorry for all your wrong behaviour, then you should give a huge hug, and all more love to them. #love #change #family

Livane Culture Journal Radio Program

Livane Culture Journal Radio Program

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Livane Culture Journal Radio Program, prepared and presented by Editor Kursat Ural and Painter Serdar Samancıoglu, has been published within the framework of Livane Culture Magazine with the number of 1307–0371 ISSN, which has been published on www.livane.org for nearly two years.
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Production Coordinator: Kursat Ural
Prepared and Presented by: Painter Serdar Samancıoglu-Kursat Ural

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Yaklaşık iki yıldır www.livane.org adresinde 5 sayı yayımlanan 1307–0371 ISSN belgeli Livane Kültür Dergisi çerçevesinde düşünülen ve yayınlanmakta olan Editör Kürşat Ural ve Ressam Serdar Samancıoğlu’nun hazırlayıp sunmuş olduğu Livane Kültür Güncesi Radyo Programı
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Yapım Koordinatörü:Kürşat Ural
Hazırlayan ve Sunanlar: Ressam Serdar Samancıoğlu-Kürşat Ural

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