Its a cliché but i never thought i would be writing this blog post, nevertheless I’m super excited about it. I’m a student and as a lot of other young people in this generation I’m going through a lot of stuff. Many older people consider this generation as lost or broken and in some kind of way I think they’re absolutely right. I don’t know exactly what to do with life and how to handle it and i remember very well that I always used to think that when I would be 18 years old that I would understand the world and that i would know what i was doing. But now ive learned that nobody actually has a clue what theyre doing, there are only people that act as if they do and i respect that. I find speaking out for myself really hard and I feel like in the world we’re living in it is hard to start with anything because there are so many people that can judge you for what you do and also stay anonymous. But i think that its more important to connect with to those who do like to reach out and to those who think the same and that is what i would like to reach.
Change
CHANGE. Change is something that happens in this society every year, month, day, minute and second. Every second you live you don’t get to live again and that can be hard to deal with. As i said in my introduction our generation can sometimes be seen as lost or broken, but i think change is always a possibility no matter what. Change is scary and i would be lying if i said i didnt think it was scary, but i think that change is also very possible as long as we are willing to connect and not turn our backs to each other but try to stand next to each other. Todays world is dealing with a lot of problems and i dont think we should take it all on our shoulders because we as humans are not made for that amount of issues. That does absolutely not mean we should ignore them or that we should stop trying to find solutions. What i mean to say is that a person that isn’t burnt out can be a lot more helpful in changing the world to become a better place than a person that keeps going when they can’t handle it anymore.
Layers of change
I think change consists out of different layers and it all starts with us as individuals. Focussing on all that we can NOT do is not going to help any problem and i think that the only way you can handle a situation strong and independent is by first learning to handle yourself and your own needs and that is something i would love to focus on in this blog. Then we have the layer of the people you know personally. I think we as human kind do not value each others words enough. Learning that words do matter is something that you can be told a million times but its not something you should be told it really is something you should learn by experiencing it and you can only reach that by living life to its fullest with sometimes falling down a little bit (the same goes for the fact that life is short and you should really enjoy that). That brings us back to the individual layer of change and for that layer you need to experience a lot of things that are unfortunately not only good. The last layer of change is the change of the world as a whole. For that kind of change you need a lot of power and i dont think i will ever be able to contribute to a change that big because of the way our system was build. I could be angry about this but im actually not because there are so many small ways of change that can improve not only the quality of your own life but also that of the people around you and maybe that should matter way more to us.
What to expect
Enough serious business lets talk about a lot of fun stuff too! This blog is to share my passions and interests and its also hopefully going to help me to reach change. I would like to use this blog as a creative way to share my creations with the world on many aspects i will do this in the posts that start with the title ‘make …. With me’. I would like to discuss social matters that i think are important to talk about with the blog post title ‘lets talk about’ and i would also love to just share ideas for crafts, books, poetry, bakings and lots more. I would also like to challenge myself to do all kind of new things and then im going to share the results with you so maybe you can learn from what i do or you can just enjoy me suffering lol I will do these challenges under the title of the posts with ‘I tried….’.
From canvas to change
To end this very first and kind of chaotic post with which i am very happy i would like to explain the name from canvas to change together with my goal for this blog (which i already kind of explained). I think change in a professional way is often associated with a hard and serious process in which individuals or groups of people try to change a way of what they have been doing for a very long time. What i learned though is that change can get a lot of easier in many ways by including a little bit of creativity and magical fantasy with it. From canvas to change therefore means that something could be a work of art in any form (books, paintings, architecture, poetry, toys, baking, crafts, songs, videos, photos and many many more) and also cause a lot of change for the better. Change can be about learning in any form and it absolutely does not have to be boring to better your life or just enjoy life a little bit more and to reach that together with (even if it is only one of) you is my one and only goal for this blog.
With this i would like to end this very first blog post,
Kind regards,
FromCanvasToChange