Anne's Weblog

Even though I completed a report to attend a contest, I must admit, that I haven’t really followed my resolutions of last week. I didn’t take as many pictures as I wanted. I wanted to take photos of my sister and her friend yesterday. But then it started to rain cats and dogs. All day long. We couldn’t go to the park to take pictures. Today we wanted to go to the beach, but it was raining again. This is no summer so far. I hope it’s going to change soon.

Also my writing resolution failed. I wanted to finish a short story this weekend and I am far from the end. Either I need a night shift or I just need to accept my failure. Again. I had so many plans when I came back from Latin America and now I am just a lazy ass. It is awful. I definitely need to get my spirit back and start my plans. Tomorrow starts a new week and then I definitely want to start fulfilling my dreams to renew my life.

I don’t want to live a life anymore that’s not leading up to my own expectations. Therefore I need to start living my dreams. Otherwise I will never be as happy as I can be. And that would be a waste of life. In theory I know this. But in practice it is so easy to settle into your life without changing anything. I don’t want that anymore. So from tomorrow on I will start to fulfill  my resolutions.

This is the first post in my new/old blog. I know I started this before and then deleted everything, but just because I didn’t write about things that I am truly passionate about. I juts thought, everybody has a blog, so I need to have one too, but then I didn’t feel like writing and just posted some stupid stuff.

Now begins a new era. I only want to write about things, that I really enjoy. I do enjoy a variety of things and I want to talk about everything, I feel good about.

For my first blog, I choose the theme “What I want”.

I was six months on a backpacking trip in Latin America. It was an amazing time and I will never forget it. It will always be a fond memory for me. I had a lot of fun over there and enjoyed it so much. At the end of my journey I wrote a list with things that I want to change in my life. It was clear to me that I couldn’t just come back and do everything as it always has been. Then all my journey, all my new experiences, all my new ideas and all my new personality changes would have been in vain.

I am sharing now a few points on my list, because I want them to be public. So I need to fulfill them and can’t back away. I am writing it in “I will” sentences, to put stronger emphasis on it and to make sure, that I really put all my afford in it.

• I will make a living out of writing.
• I will write every day a few pages of my travel report book.
• I will write lots of articles and try to publish them.
• I will attend writing workshops and contests.
• I will deepen my photography experiences.
• I will learn more about Photoshop, dark room, exposure etc.
• I will attend photography classes, workshops and contests.
• I will take pictures everyday.
• Tomorrow (19th of June 2009) I will start my “project 365″ (credits to Anita Larsen for the phrase). I will take at least one good picture every day.
• I will read more to be more creative and to deepen my crafts.
• I will go to more often to exhibitions, concerts and readings.
• I will meet friends and family more often.
• I will save money for my next journey.

That’s what I want to achieve in the near future. I hope I will be able!

And now a little insigth in my journey:

Little girl in Peru