Happy New Year! How often have you already heard this today? I heard it 17 times yet and nobody knows how many people forgot to say it today and will tomorrow.
I love New Starts. I love Changes. I love new ideas. That’s everything a New Year offers. It’s the First Day of the Year and I woke up so full of new ideas. Something new is the chance to get a new chance. I started to read a book in the last days of 2013. It’s about a woman, how does one good deed every day for one year. It made me think of what I could do in 2014.
Today I got a brainwave for this year. I wanted to take a picture every day. 356 pictures of 2014. I loved the idea from the beginning and thought about creating a blog to publish one picture everyday so I could show my actions to everyone.
I told my family and boyfriend about this and he was like “it’s kind of weird to publish your whole life in the internet”. This was like a punch in the face, because I thought it was so perfect and he just didn't feel my joy about it. My idea was maybe impossible because I wouldn't even have enough time to do so. I laid in my bed for like an hour thinking about the next year. What if I wouldn't do a photography blog? What if I would just not document my entire life every day? All the diaries, blogs, photo albums and every sheet of paper which I filled with my thoughts, dreams and feelings about life became a huge pressure for me since a while. So I got that it wouldn't be the right way to continue like this. I decided to do the opposite. To stop writing and blogging and documenting every little step I will do in 2014. I would stop to talk about myself all the time and start to listen to all the others. I would start to support them and stop to wait for their support for my dreams.
Finally I added the sixth and last point to my New Year Resolutions: