#03 – Abduselami Çifter (Abdus)

Nationality – Turkish

A song: Iron Maiden - The number of the beast

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Have you ever felt left off the conversation?! Like everyone around is laughing of commenting about something that you simply ignore for not having lived what everyone else had experienced together (something like Joey Tribbiani reading an Enciclopedia)? And, of course, I wouldn’t forget the part when you kindly smile, trying to fit in anyhow, but inside you’re feeling extremely stupid.

That was kind of it. “Is Abdus back?”; “When is Abdus coming back from Turkey”; “Oh… Remember when Abdus…”; “Oh… Abdus is the handsome dude”… And I was like: “Who the fuck is Abdus?!”

I confess that I was quite curious about this so-called Abdus. He might be a really great guy. He actually has his own one-man fan club (we’ll come back to that later, I promise). His always-postponed arrival was just feeding the expectations, but the guy seemed to be enjoying Turkey quite a lot.

But he finally came back and my first words to this guy was the predicted sentence: “Oh… So you’re the famous Abdus”. I should have tried something like “The Amazing Abdus”, since I had this Wizard idea in mind. You live, you learn. I’ll try next time.

Abdus has a great sense of justice and generosity inside of him and he is not afraid of showing that, especially when it comes to the ones he like. Hot blooded (it seems to be part of his Turkish DNA), if something is wrong or against his friends something stronger than him comes from inside and he will step up and say: “What the fuck is that”? And he stands for what he thinks is right; he does not hide underneath the excuse of “being reasonable”. No, he is the perfect excuse for the ones that likes to hide like this; he is the one where lies the hopes of the weak, the ones that are always expecting someone to take the word, to step ahead so they could feel ok in their comfort zone. This, my friends, is what is called virtue.

But ok… lets be fair with the guy, because he is not a nervous or tempered guy. He is really not. Extremely kind and friendly and willing to help you out the way he can.

Abdus is a PHD student with amazing drawing skills and remarkable imagination to tell stories. Comic books reader, this guy has an amazing story in his head, but it won’t ever go to the paper – work on that, man. Oh... how can I forget: a ROCK AND ROLL MAN! An island of good musical taste in this flood of R&B crap that was Saltash C!

In the end, waiting for the last Saltash C fellow was worthwhile. I’m really glad to call myself your friend, man!