If you want to “grasp me” (<-- big words; Disclaimer: not much to grasp) as a person, then you’re exactly in the right place – I made this page specifically for us. I don’t like talking about myself too much; this page is just for you to feel me.
Overview?
Hi!
I’m a 17-year-old kid born on April 21st, 2008, and raised in Baku, Azerbaijan. I lived in Baku until I hit 14 in '22; I then moved to Germany.
I’ll just tell you some things about me for now.
Languages
I speak the following languages:
- Azerbaijani. Azerbaijani is a language in the Turkic language family. It is my mother tongue and I find it beautiful!
- Russian. Russian is the first foreign language I started learning when I was about 4 to 5 years old (2012-2013). Everyone in my family also speaks Russian to some degree. And because I’ve already been speaking Russian for about 13 years and attended a Russian-speaking class (everything we learned was in Russian), I often call it my 2nd mother tongue. I think that Russian is also beautiful!
- English. English is my second foreign language. I was forced to start learning English in 2018 by my parents (I am really thankful now), when I was about 10 years old. I am very grateful to be speaking English. (I’ll probably have a separate article on this sometime in the future!)
- German. German is my third foreign language that I started learning in about 2021, when I was 13 years old. Although I have a B2-level certificate and have been living in Germany since 2022, I still can’t speak German to a very decent degree. But, to be fair, I’ve never learned German by myself, fueled by my own passion & interest toward the language; nonetheless, I am planning to do that very soon, since it began to grow on me and I’d like to excel in it! (I’ll probably have a separate article on this too!)
Personality Traits
*This was a section about my personality traits, but I removed it.
Chances are, when I am talking to you, I will fine-tune my qualities, allocate a certain personality and cater to you, so you can fully feel comfortable with me. (I don’t do this consciously, it just happens on its own.)
Hobbies
My hobbies are:
- Sports. I’m not your typical gym-bro or a TikTok calisthenics (I don’t go to the gym) star. In fact, if you saw me, you probably wouldn’t even say I do sports! But physical exercise has had a huge impact on me and I will forever do sports. Why? To be fit & healthy and not to let my body stagnate.
- Programming & technologies. I like sciences – that’s where computer science & programming come in. I like programming, I like tinkering, I love being able to create using code & machines. I find it to be the sculpting of the 21st century. Please also note that I have some sub-hobbies within this one, but I count them all as programming & tech.
- Reading. I am really grateful that books exist. The sparse, scarce, occasional (that cannot be expressed with words), unusual and uncommon emotions & experiences that one lives through – they all can be found, caught, experienced & relived in books of genius people of the past. How fascinating. Books are compressed mental models that were put in a short span of some 500 pages that could be read in a single sitting. And then, you’ll have adopted all those mental models and philosophies, too! (I hope this doesn’t sound too nerdy.)
- Sciences. I like math, physics, chemistry (all right, not really chemistry, to be honest), and other sciences. They make my brain struggle. And I like struggle – it makes the brain work.
- Humanity. I love people (I am a humanist), cultures & multiculturalism, languages & multilingualism, and getting to know new people (I am quite extroverted when I speak the languages I can speak well) and hearing their stories. When I say I am really grateful to be alive, I can’t express my feelings anywhere close to what I actually feel!
I am interested in other things too, but nothing more distinctive comes to my mind as of writing this.
Note
It is really difficult to fully describe someone’s character through a screen, by text. I would say – and I hope I don’t come off as self-centered or arrogant – that it is even more difficult to describe mine: the multiculturalism in every aspect of my life makes it difficult to fully describe my values – simply because they are always nuanced.
Once, I got sort of “insulted” because of this; the person called me “innocent” and “too centrist”, insinuating that I don’t have a strong/any character; (Note that I categorically disagree: I have quite a lot of values I am willing to rigorously defend.)
I will keep updating this blog post.
- Nihad Badalov