afandi

Names and nouns My name is the Persian derivative of effendi, it is an honorific in the in the Ottoman Empire; my parents take great care in naming me considering that we have no connections whatsoever with Iran, the middle east or turkey; and we live nowhere near any of those places. I come from a culture that believes that a person’s given names have an effect in the person’s entire life. Parents buys books, consult religious leaders and magical swamis that read the stars and date

thanks lisa, you have no idea how much you make my day. thank you for the comments, you're right i probably didn't make that part clear enough. the whole comment about the 7-11 was to make fun of me. thanks for pointing that out.

Life and stuff Life doesn’t start when you’re born; life only start when you get over all the teen angst, after everything mellowed out and the world is actually a lot smaller than you imagined it be. I really wish that someone would hold me down or do an intervention; really explain to me that the universe doesn’t hold a grudge against me and that high school isn’t the be all and end all. Back then tomorrow seems like a distant concept, now it seems like it can’t come sooner and th

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I need to vent I wish I know what is it that I am doing with my life, right now I scarcely remember any point or purpose to anything that I have done. I can’t pretend to have made some benevolent sacrifice in all of this, but it this what my life had led towards. I am probably better off if I believe in some kind of a god. So I can squeeze a little personal pleasure in the delusion; pretended that of all this is to accumulate brownie points for a spot in the eternal heaven or some