My Soulmate

Toprak was in her early twenties. She could neither experience her first love nor reunion nor separation... While her friends were talking about their love almost every day, Toprak was never there.

On a cold and snowy day in the last week of January, Toprak once again headed to the library, which she called her second home. Due to the freezing wind and snow, she quickly managed to enter the library.

Thinking that instead of studying today, it would be fun to pick any book from the shelf and read it, she hand-picked a novel and started to fly into the world of dreams with the wind of the novel. The novel described love and affection so beautifully that Toprak continued reading, sometimes laughing and sometimes crying.

The novel had previously been read by a student and donated to the library. In the novel read before, the lines that affected Toprak the most were underlined. Both the underlining of the lines with a red pen and the note at the back of the book impressed Toprak greatly.

The novel was donated to the library by Rüzgar, a fourth-grade literature student. She didn't know Rüzgar at all, but for the first time, she felt a desire to know Rüzgar with an indescribable excitement.

With the courage of being a woman who wanted to believe in love and was looking for love, she did something she had never done before and started searching for Rüzgar on the school's social media account. All she had was Rüzgar's name, surname, department, and class.

If he was using social media, there was no obstacle for her to find it and add it there. She immediately looked at the date the book was donated to the library and yes, the book was donated in September this year.

Everything happened at the speed of the wind and Toprak easily found Rüzgar from the school's social media account. However, she could not click on the add friend box.

She thought the best thing would be to take a picture of the note at the back of the book that said to those who read the novel: “Do you still believe in love?” In response to the note Toprak wrote "I want to believe!" She wrote and sent it with the photo.

Rüzgar was preparing for his presentation in the library when he saw the message request on his social media account. "Even though I was in the library, I forgot to put my phone on silent again," he said, clicking the message with excitement. What he saw on the screen was a message adorned with an exclamation mark. A girl named Toprak...

She posted a picture of his novel, which he forgot that he had donated and even read. What should I write now, he thought. He was excited and started laughing. Rüzgar thought, "What a beautiful name, what a beautiful woman." So he accepted the message request, sent a friend request, and responded to the message.

They started messaging for hours, and it was getting dark. Rüzgar wrote that he was in the library and Toprak stated that she was still in the library as well. They decided to meet outside the library.

When Rüzgar saw Toprak coming towards him at the exit door with the novel she was reading in her hand, he felt as if he had known her for years.

After that they walked towards the dormitory where they stayed, accompanied by long conversations and laughter. They had started to take the first steps of their togetherness and love.

I always knew that love would come find me someday,

but never did I know that it would be you who was headed my way.

You caught me off guard and took me by surprise,

but you simply captivated me, the same way you do when I look into your eyes.