Hello everyone! Do you know that feeling when you are just unhappy with where you are right now? That you have no idea what you want in life and how to get where you want to be? That’s how I feel right now. For a very long time I felt really lost, because I didn't know where I saw myself in maybe 2 or 5 or even 10 years. It made me very desperate. Especially looking at my friends around me and other people, who seemed to have figured out what their "purpose" in life is. But I always tried telling myself that this is my life and it is on me to decide how I want to live my life, because I only have this one!

Now you probably wonder who I am and what the hell I am talking about. Well, let me tell you my little story:

I was born in Stuttgart, which is a big city in south of Germany. With 16 I graduated middleschool and that's also when my family decided to move 450km far away to a different state in western Germany. Leaving all the friends and places I knew behind to start new in a complete unknown place. When I turned 18 my parents gifted me my first semi-professional camera kit for my birthday. It was a Canon 1000D with 2 lenses in a kit, a 18-55mm and a 70-300mm. It was a huge deal for me, since my family never had much money, but I was so grateful, because I was able to explore a whole new world called “photography”.

As a very introverted person, I never really was able to make many friends or connect with other people. So this new hobby was a good way for me to escape my daily life and do a hobby on my own. After graduating school we moved back again to my hometown and I started as a trainee in a company. I gave most of my money I earned to my parents to support our family. After finishing my education I started working a really tiresome 9-5 job in an office, but it gave me the opportunity to save up all my money and buy myself my first full-frame camera. I was so happy! Since then I always spend my time taking photos. Most of the time I took photos of my friends or cities I visited. But lately it has drawn me into a complete different direction: Nature.

After a while I got really tired of an boring 9-5 office job I quit to start studying something I was more interested in and again moved 450km back to the western part of Germany, where I still live to this day. But even that turned out not to be the thing I truly was missing, still I study to this day to finish it, hoping to graduate University soon! While trying to create something new and exciting on the side: This blog and project! I found so much more passion in creating photography, being outside in nature, creating own pieces with my sewing machine and even learning how to paint. (This is a complete different topic I will talk about in another blogpost, I promise!)

I lived all my live in one big city after another. Highly populated, loud, dirty. I never really could find the peace of mind I was looking for. And there was my answer I was searching for such a long time. Being surrounded by nature, listening to birds sing while indulging myself in the silence of the forest was what my heart was aching for so long. Outside in nature there was only me. I could forget about all the problems, the worries or negative thoughts that haunt me while I was surrounded by trees and fields. As long as I stayed there, I felt truly happy.

And this is why I am right here, right now. I want to share this adventure with you and hope that I can inspire and motivate many people with my work and my art. To maybe guide you to your very own happiness.

Well this has been a pretty serious blog for my first post, but I hope you understand the purpose of this blog a little more and have a wonderful day! ♥

Love, Diana.