There was a time I wasn’t an English major, that period of time when the school bombarded you with emails, reminding you that you needed to declare your major. I was leaning towards biology, but more so than biology, I was interested in neurology. I mainly liked reading about neurology. It was cool learning about all these neuronal pathways that would probably serve me no purpose in life other than to spout the fact that I was able to learn about it.

Then I decided to go all in on the English major and stop pretending to be what I knew I was not.

In 2015, during my summer vacation, I went to Turkey. Kinda sucks, seeing all your family in another country looking at you with eyes of pity, knowing that your IQ could have been better put to something related to the medical field.

All these materialists care about is money. All they want is to land a job that’ll pay you thousands per month. They want bragging rights. They want to set you on some golden pedestal and set you as an example for the younger ones. By then I’m anything but a person, but an automaton, molded to fit the universal cogs of society that promote income inequality.

Then again, I still love them all.

Where am I going with this?

Well…

First I thought, “So what should I write about,” which then led to me thinking “Man, I used to be pre-med,” followed by “That time in Turkey when I told them I’m not gonna become a doctor but a professor was annoying,” but then I realized “Oh wait, they were hardly upset, maybe for an hour or maybe even a second, but then we forgot all about it and had lots of fun,” and then I realized I took some amazing photos back then. I decided to peruse through them and decided that these’ll be my canvas post.

Don’t forget to click the images.

Onur A. Ayaz