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April 28, 2022 Post a Comment

TO MAKE LIVING ITSELF AN ART.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

My favourite quote from Henry Miller. I beloved it because it manages to remind me that living, like art, is a full spectrum of emotions. Something information technology's like shooting fish in a barrel for u.s.a. all to forget when we become wrapped upwardly in the pocket-sized, irrelevant details of everyday life.

When it gets to this time of year information technology's natural for u.s. all to retrieve back on the year that was and the twelvemonth that will be. And I've been thinking over and over what it is I want for 2022 and that's when I think of that quote – I want to brand living itself an fine art. A piffling abstract, I know. Possibly more simply: I desire to live, to create and dear my work. My piece of work is and so linked to my life that my life can plow into work – and wouldn't it be wonderful if both were an fine art?

2018 has been incredible, the best work year of my life. I've had the pleasure of working for brands I could only dream most when I started doing this way back in 2009. I'm proud of lots of my work and have learned to accept that you can't do your best work all of the time – that'southward what makes your best piece of work your best piece of work. However, 2022 was also a very hard personal year of mine. I went into therapy in April for depression. This isn't the first fourth dimension I've sought help for mental wellness, and I'm lucky for that as I caught it early enough because I recognise the symptoms. That doesn't mean that I'1000 sad the whole time, I've had some of the all-time times of my life this yr, and been incredibly happy, too. But both can co-exist together. I can experience joyous about one matter and yet feel an inexplicable sadness within me.

It's the biggest paradox – to be projecting a sure role of your life but feeling a very different way much of the time. I'm not sharing this for sympathy past rather to dislodge that idea that because I have a pretty instagram feed I'1000 living 'the dream'. I'm living role of my dream – which is beingness successful in my piece of work. And I'thou then thankful for that, because I worked and so difficult for that. But behind the photos in that location's a whole life – a real one. With ups and downs, and good friends and bad ones. With family problems. With good days – and bad ones.

For as many wonderful times and highs there may be in life (normally the function yous see on social media) at that place are also excruciating lows. I don't tend to share those parts – and I won't go into more details of them – simply I merely wanted this to serve as a reminder for 2022 to non compare yourself to anyone or annihilation yous see online. But considering someone isn't talking about being sad doesn't hateful they're non sad. Just because I'1000 not posting photos of myself on low days doesn't mean they don't exist.
I've chosen to keep those aspects of my life to myself- not to lie to you but to have a side of myself that is purely mine.

Then my new year's day'south resolution is simple: to be happy. Okay, maybe not so simple. And so at to the lowest degree to savor in the moments of happiness and accept that without the lows the highs wouldn't feel as good. To live in the present moment as much equally I can.

The reason I turned my passions into my chore is because they are what makes me happy. I'g happiest when I'm travelling, exploring somewhere new and information technology makes me feel really alive and present. I decided to become a photographer for the same reason – if I take even just 1 photo I love, I'll take a corking twenty-four hours. I feel calmer and more in control. My love for skincare is the same. My skin used to get me down then I focused on getting it as healthy as possible and finding out as much as I could nearly skincare and skin health.

It'southward the bits in between those that I struggle with – the everyday living. That are neither up or down, but time passing. And then 'to brand living itself an art' I plan on focusing on the fact that I go to share all the above with you all on a daily ground. And that makes me happy.

To brand my living itself an art. To focus on the everyday every bit a risk to exercise something bully. To accept that life itself is ever going to go up and down, like a heartbeat. That is living. And to get in an fine art information technology's the acceptance of that. To notice it interesting rather than fight against it.

Thank you all so much for following along, sharing my work and chatting with me this yr.

I wish you a wonderful 2019.

x E