Starting all over again…
…or perhaps I should say renewal, because that sounds more positive! Years ago I blogged quite frequently and encouraged all my friends to start blogs as well. Some years later I took my blog down and avoided the digital life and online stuff in general. I didn’t really know what to write about after a while and sharing the mundane details of life seemed silly.
I always wanted to start up again because I realized that there is an audience that cares, all your friends and family and future digital friends, too! However, I didn’t know where to begin really. This post I actually started a while ago, but I tend to have a lot of drafts of things that I never fully complete. I suppose I am the queen of “it’s not ready” and thereby never showing anything. Or looking on the positive side, I’m very much an idea person…following through to completion takes so much more effort for me compared to starting on a great idea! I like to say I have ADD, but those are just excuses as always. I decided to make a change and “Just Do It!”
I was motivated enough to start up this blog when I had my major life change – moving to Italy and getting married! It seemed like a good point to start blogging again, to share my journey and thoughts. Specifically I will chronicle my thoughts about living in this foreign country and the oh so wonderful experiences of married life. I suppose also it’s very therapeutic to be able to “talk” to friends in this way and in English! I’ve learned a lot of Italian, but amongst a foreign culture and a language that can go into dialects and variations, it’s still difficult for me to comprehend everything and especially to express exactly what I want to say. Heck – it’s hard to express sometimes even in English! This blog will serve as my little private outlet…perhaps one day I will be able to blog in Italian.
So lately I’ve been in a bit of a funk emotionally, trying to find my place with all the changes in life. After quitting my PM job, I am still freelance designing for web and graphic projects here and there, but have been exploring a bit more regarding starting my own business. Something with design, but more than anything – positive, happy, beautiful things and thoughts – that’s what I want. There is so much negativity and grief in this world, I want to create the opposite and make the world a better place – as corny as that sounds. I’ve been learning a bit about positive psychology and there is a bit about how stress is inevitable in life, but you have to “undo the negative” so to speak. You have to balance it with positive things in your life, so that it doesn’t adversely affect your health and livelihood, which is why people need to blow off steam, go out and have fun and such. I want to be a happiness engineer! Did that just sound really nerdy corny? Well, I had been in the mode of self-reflection and analysis…researching what I should do and taking e-courses to learn even more. I think I will be ready very soon, it’s exciting and scary…
Now that I’ve blabbed on for a while, let me share some photography…things that inspire and make me happy. Have a great day and I will update soon. Thanks for listening.
Things that make me happy here in Italia!
Posted on July 10, 2009 at 11:18 am | blogging
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Lovely photos!