The Beauty of Discovery



Once you let go of the things that hinders you from doing what you love, happiness comes next.

I've been thinking, reflecting for the past months. Constantly asking myself, "Am I slowly becoming the person I want to be?" or, "Do I like what I do?"

And it is not being selfish.

To let yourself discover things.Uncover what is always within you. What your heart always longs to.

I've gave it a hard thought. I know I wasn't talented, I was told many times. And I tried, again.

Drawing had always been a hopeless dream for me. I wasn't as good as those artistic classmates at school. And no one ever told me, I don't have to be. And that, I should just do what I love regardless of the outcome. So at least, I know I tried and I was happy.

This were just a few realizations that kept me to try it.

To try new things and reinvent myself.


To discover new things I was told I couldn't.


Here are my first tries.


I am happy and I think happy was an understatement. I am doing what I was told I couldn't and wasn't talented about. But look at those, I made them. I produced art. 

It is in of those TEDTalks that I had watched that had caught me with a saying like this, "Success doesn't come on first, second and third try. You have to face a lot of failures and you must be willing to persevere. You must know how to try again."

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