If I gave you a view of the world from my window, what would you see?

Have you even give up on something because you either thought you would never do well enough for it, or that it was too difficult and not worth all your time? I have. I have given up on so many things, my room is littered with pieces of leftover tools, papers, books, and gadgets of all sorts. The skeletal remains of dreams which were once inspiring and beautiful. Sometimes I see all this accumulated junk and try to take a step back to figure out what kind of motivation drove me to even pursue it in the first place. In the end, the reasons are hard to define and the drive and inspiration is swept under the rug. 

Recently, this blog has started to become one of those things I have slowly given up on. It is sad, that the passion for writing and illustrating a idea through that harmonic mix of photographs and sentences has slowly started to vane with everything else going on in my life. Also along the way I have started to doubt myself and everything I believe in. It is hard to write when you contradict yourself in your head as well as on paper. 

Yet somehow, I find that I cannot give up on this, it is something I have been doing for most of my teenage life. Writing and photographing is something I have grown up with, it is a huge part of who I am and I cannot lose that part of me. It seems that ever since I've come here, I have grown distant from the person that I once was, and have grown into someone who constantly tries to live up to expectations surrounding my studies and at the same time, trying to juggle responsibility which comes with living abroad. I have taken everything so seriously I have lost touch with my own 'humanity'. 

So, thank you all of you who constantly read this, it is something I do because I truly and wholeheartedly am passionate about, stories are my world, photographs are windows into that world. Don't give up on my just yet :) I just need your inspiration to get me going!