Confession of a Bookaddict

I love taking photos of books!

She got up from the bed and slowly walked into the kitchen to make her morning coffee. The world around her was still dark and quiet except for the sound of some birds signing. She poured her coffee into her mug while thinking about the things she has to do for the day and planning all her work. She walked towards her book corner and picked up the book she was reading until late last night, thinking she has one more hour to start her day before the world wakes up. She cuddled up with her book and her cup of coffee and started her meditation. She immediately dived into the life of the characters from her book, forgetting the world around her, into a peaceful space. Her own quiet space where no one intrudes!

A book and a cup of coffee: two of the most comforting things!

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved reading. I can’t exactly remember the time that I fell in love with books. I always used to read anything that I can get my hands on. There were days that I pretended I had a headache and finished some stories underneath my school table while resting my head on the table. Sometimes, when the exams were around the corner, I used to read books, hiding them between the textbooks, pretending to be studying whenever my mother checked on me. Apart from my guilt associated with the pretend, I truly enjoyed the adventures, mysteries, life stories, and fantasies encapsulated inside those books.

I love the scent of a new book, the scent of an old book with torn edges; I love to admire the cover page and guess what would be inside the story. Opening a book is like opening a secret door and entering into an unknown world. I meet so many different characters who are adventurous, ambitious, weird, eccentric, dreamy, or irresponsible, characters who let me understand how the human mind, their thought process works. I start living their lives; I walk with them enjoying the evening sky while trying to understand their perspectives and experiencing their emotions and adventures. It is how I explore the diversity of thoughts, ethnicity, and understand the deep ridden intricacies of the world and beyond.

I transform into a different world through words, letting my imagination go wild and taking my emotions on a magical journey. I have the ability to become someone else, doing something exciting and exotic, even if it is for a short time. I can be a warrior, a witch, a dragon rider, a scientist, a detective, and so many other different individuals. It enlarges my imaginations, broadens my mind, gives me insights and experience I might never have had on my own. I travel across the time reading the history of the world or reading about the future. It helps me to understand my past, my present and how my future should be.

When there’s a book in my hand, I can hear the character’s voice inside my head. When my mind is nourished with words and thoughts, I start having small discussions with these thoughts and ideas. I start listening to the characters more to absorb and analyze their ideas until I reach multiple braingasms and close the book with an indescribable satisfaction. No other activity causes such deep stirrings in my mind. I am forever grateful to my books for teaching me patience, empathy, analysis, creativity, active listening, and many more crucial habits and skills which helped me to mold my personal and professional life.

Reading fuels my curiosity to learn more about the world surrounding me. It allows me to break out of old thoughts and grasp new perceptions and novel ideas. Every book I read teaches me something new. Let it be a fiction, business book, sci-fi, fantasy or even a children book, it always helps me to see things differently, and I become a bit wiser each day.

Books create that magical aura around me and lift me to a different world where no one ever intrudes; it’s totally my own world. I truly love books for uncovering so many things for me. For being with me all my life giving me so much pleasure. For taking me on unforgettable journeys. For making me the person, I am right now.

P.S. Few people asked me how I find time to read so much, which made me think about what made me fall in love with books. I hope that at least one person who reads this article will be inspired to read more books.

I’m H-A-P-P-Y

I’m H-A-P-P-Y is one of Akira’s favorite nursery rhymes. He always responds very happily to this song with a little coos and goo-goos. It’s hard to believe that our sweet little boy Akira is four months old already. I enjoy his sweetness so much every day and cherish every moment being around him. I can’t stop admiring him every second, as for me, he is the most wonderful, beautiful and innocent creature in the whole world. I can’t even begin to explain how motherhood has changed me.

I have never been a kid person before, I didn’t even know whether I like children or not. So when we got the news about our new addition to the family, we got scared. Of course we were so happy to hear the good news, but we got so scared about parenting. I was so worried about being a good mother because I’ve never thought about mothering before. KP helped me a lot to overcome my fear. At last I learned that if you love your baby, care about him, protect him, and give your best to be a good mother you don’t have to be worried about it. There is no such thing as bad mothering if you try your best to raise your child in a good way.

My nine months period of pregnancy was not that fabulous. I was so moody, grumpy and was in the pain most of the time and the worst part was the food aversion. Until the day that Akira was born, I didn’t enjoy a single meal. I just ate for the sake of nourishment. But the feeling of having your little buddy with you all the time was amazing. And there’s really no way to describe the feel of those first kicks. All the pain that I have suffered through that time just vanished when I first saw his face. That tiny little face brought so much happiness to our small family and now we can’t think about how we have been living without him all these past years.

I have learned so many things for this four months. I have learned to live on less sleep, to eat super-fast, to shower in two minutes, to organize effectively, and most importantly to be strong. Also when others pass judgment on parenting decisions it is hard to do things in my own way, but somehow I managed to master the art of ‘keep calm and do things as I like’. I know it is hard to raise a child, and no one tells this before we have kids, maybe it’s because they don’t want to scare us. Even though it is hard, there is nothing to be scared. Honestly, there is nothing like seeing that wide smile in the baby’s face when he sees us. All the hard work we do, all the sacrifices we make, is worth to see that cute smile.

It’s a New Dawn, It’s a New Day

Another year has gone. It feels like it wasn’t long ago that it was the beginning of the last year. It’s amazing to see how time flies.

2013 was one of the best years for us. We became parents, and it was the most wonderful experience we’ve ever had. Our baby boy, Akira, is almost two months old. When he smiles with his birdy eyes all the exhaustion and distress fly away. Every minute spending with him is so precious and memorable. Sometimes I look at him and think “OMG… Did we really make this beautiful creature?” I’ve never thought I would feel this way, these wonderful miraculous feelings, about giving a birth to a child.

This year my hope is to be a good mother and take a good care of my little family. I wish my family to be happy, for my baby to move forward and keep growing and developing, for my husband to be joyful in his new role, and for everyone to be happy.

Happy 2014!!!

A Brief Hiatus

Hi everyone!

This is a quick update to let you know that I am getting a little break from this blog over the next 6 weeks or so. The reason behind this short pause is I am going to be a mother within next 2 weeks. I will be very busy welcoming the new member to our little family and won’t get enough time to blog or even read a book. But that is for a short time. These days all I do is watch movies to get distracted from my pains. This little baby is going to be a sports star for sure since she/he having a really fun time playing inside my belly 😀

Hopefully, I will be able to update the blog after mid-December.

Until next time,
Cheers!

And So It Begins

After wandering around other personal & book review blog sites, I’ve decided to start my own personal blog. This blog is where I post my thoughts about life, books, movies and other things. Simply I am planning to babble on about things that I am interested.

I like to call myself as a bookworm, since the most favorite thing in my life is reading, I am really addict to it and now it is a habit. Books bring me into another world and let me live through it and be someone else. I read almost anything, but in the past 2-3 years, I’ve really gotten into fantasy, sci-fi, YA, adult fictions and historical fictions. Recently I really enjoyed reading few chick-lit books.

I like writing too but do not have a true talent to do it and I always struggle with words. So apart from reading my next favorite thing is movies. I mostly enjoy fantasy, comedy, family, drama, sci-fi, and romance movies.

Aside from books and movies, the one thing I really love and always try to make time to do is dancing. I always wanted to be a dancer from the day I can remember, though I couldn’t become one.

So this is me and my blog. I’m not sure people will read this blog or not but if you stopped by this way I warmly welcome you!