Photography and photographers...

If you have already spent some of your time on this blog you will probably know who I am.
When I say "Who I am" I mean who I really am, because I'm not only a dreadhead with a blog.


                               
                                     This is me⤴

Photography is not only a passion,
It represents my father as a photographer and as such an important person in my life.
It represents my granparents who always believed in me and gave me my first camera as a gift.
It represents my perseversance and all my sacrifices.
It represents every day I spent busking to have the money to travel.

It represents

The places I saw

The adventures I lived.

I'm thankful for all the sunsets

For all the people I met







                    And for who I haven't met yet.

Some of the photos I collected during the past two years⤴

If you liked them (I hope you did) you need to check them out on Facebook or Instagram

I'm sorry for "spamming" part, I prefer the creative part too.
I found and lost myself in the photos I make, this is so beautiful. I've never felt like this before.
Do you know that feeling when you live "here and now", you are the moment, you are everything and everything is you, don't you?
Well, if you don't, stop whatever you are doing and begin to live your life as you want it to be.
Don't let anyone tell you that You can't do it. 
Forget about career, money, people's opinion, and ask to yourself "How do I feel?"... and remember that if there is someone who can change your reality, that person is YOU.
Let's live in freedom and peace, let's make friends and contemplate the sunset, let's live every moment.

When life is not as you expected

Dear You,

Lovely you, who woke up this morning with the question "What am I doing here? Am I happy?".
You're building your existence, this keeps your eyes open on the world around you, this makes you stronger everyday more.
If you're not happy with the aswer to these questions you need to know that's okay.
That's fine if you are eighteen, thirty or even sixty. You're living life caring about your happiness and this is something to be proud of.
You woke up this morning, looked in the mirror and put a smile on your face, well, how true was that smile? Did you let the day fly away or you lived it?
How many days are going to fly away before you will pick up life in your hands? This is your own life, it doesn't belong to anyone else. Who will change it if you don't do it by yourself?
Go outside, take a breath and see what's around you. Do you like it? Do you feel this belongs to you? If that's not, run, run away until you run out of breath.
Build a life which can represent you, build a life where the reason to wake up in the morning is to live.
I know it's scary to change, you leave something familiare to look for something you probably don't know what it is.
If anyone will support you, well, I will, but you HAVE to support yourself first.
Believe in yourself, as a human you are incredible, you can go wherever your heart brings you, just follow it.
Take care of yourself, phisically and mentally, because if you won't do it who will do it for you?
I woke this morning asking myself "Where am I going?" and do you know what's the answer? I have no idea, so I started laughing, I almost cried.
It's okay to not have an clear idea of what you're doing or where you're going, that's life, but it must not stop you.
You're strong, I know you're strong.
I'm so proud of you.
We will go over this and what we will find will be magnificent.

Believe in yourself,
because I do.
See you soon.
Bye.

Life begins every single day

I had the ispiration to write this post from some things that have happened recently.
There is only one thing I want to say to everybody out there who are going through bad times and it is "I care and I can understand".
I know saying "You'll get better" doesn't work, you feel stuck in a life you don't want, you feel like i cage made of your own skin.
I know how it makes you feel and I know how strong you have to be to live everyday with that feeling.
I know you wake up in the morning and the world seems grey every single day, it seems you can change anything.
You suffer and you give up thinking you deserve what is happening to you.
You feel heavy under the world which is crushing on you, you feel guilty because you don't have the strength to run away and escape from all that fear and pain.
Nobody around you seems to understand you and you start blaming on yourself because they can't hear you're screaming inside.
I know you feel alone even if there is someone else around you, you stop talking, smiling and You stop living.
Well, you don't even know how powerful you are to take all that boulder on your shoulders.
It is ok to not have everything under your control, it's not your fault if people can't understand you, it's not because of you people are disappointed.

When you will realize how strong you need to be to bear all that stuff, because you will find it out one day, you will discover what is behind all that pain.
You will discover how you really are, how positive and beautiful you really are.
Nobody will stop you, you will do whatever you want because you survived worse situations, because you had the power to win the sadness.
You need to find out what ispires you and motivates you and you will be invincible.
I know it takes a long time to recover from all that fear that kept you paralyzed, this is a long journey, but you have to do you for yourself, to find how you truly are and begin to live life.
You DESERVE to be happy and smile everyday, that's what you really deserve.
Don't let others to say the opposite.

It may not matter, but I care about you, I care about your happiness. Stay focused on what you want and stay positive! You can change your life if you want to.
Be the best yourself, do it for your own happiness because you need to live, not just to survive.



This is the story behind the everybody's scars, mine too. I've always seen my scars as a big failure, a symbol of you I did wrong in my life, but now I can see beyond them, I can see the person I was to understand the person I am, they remind me everyday what I went through and I strong I am to be here now.
I'm so proud of myself and I'm so proud of you!
Stay positive, spread your happiness and be the best yourself!

The first video!

It took me some weeks, but the first video is ready!
I know it is only an introduction to the project and I'm not good at speaking, but I'm happy because I finally made it!
I hope my future works will talk for me.

1. What I want to do with my life | Spreading the happiness 

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Soon you will see the idea growing up and maybe me talking in a better way.

Spread the happiness and be happy!

Anna.

Why I started this blog

After a few posts I wanted to talk about the reasons why I started this blog.
"I was not used to happiness", this is the reason, not that obvious, so let me explain.
I spent most of my life struggling with my dissatisfaction and my pessimism so I've lost a lot of wonderful things from my teenage years: the first kiss, the first trip without parents, hanging out with friends all night. These experiences just flipped away and one of my biggest regrets is I didn't enjoy them, I didn't find any beauty in what I did.
Luckily, better late than never, I realized there is such plenty of beauty in life.
I started taking care of myself, studying more and appriciate everything life would give to me. I kept my eyes opened and I discovered what being a child feels like, so everything around me looked new and magnificent again.
Nowadays I find almost everything which surround me incredibly stunning and it makes me really happy.
We are close to the end, don't worry.
During the last years I joined many communities (vegan, for the animal rights, volunteering, artistic...) which welcomed me with joy and let me feel at home, so I had an idea: why not create a HAPPY COMMUNITY.
A "place" where people can share their passions, what makes them happy.
I'm also thinking about starting a youtube channel with the same aim, interviewing everybody want to share something which makes him/her happy.
I would like to share with you a quote from one of the most touching movie I've ever seen: "Happiness is real only when shared" (Into the wild).
Let's share our happiness and let's be happy together.

Please, If you read this post, comment below (anonymously too, I don't mind, but do it). It would mean a lot for me to read what you think.
Thank you so much.

I am a vegan smoothie lover!

I LOVE smoothies, they are nutritious, delicious and colorful.

Today I'm sharing with you two of my favorite summer smoothies and one of my vegan ice cream recipes.

1.

Ingredients:

• Frozen bananas
• Carots
• Apricots
• Peaches

This smoothie is fresh and sweet.

It is perfect for a busy day or physical activities.

 2.

Ingredients:

• Frozen bananas
• Melon
• Apricots
• Peaches

This smoothie is so orange!

Personally, I consider colors a big part of eating food. It may be childish, but I'm more attracted to colorful food, eating a colorful meal I feel satisfied physically and also mentally.

Colors make me happy.

Banana ice cream

Ingredients:

• Frozen bananas
• Peaches
• Cocoa powder

In addition:

• Oatmeal
• Pumpkin seeds
• Chopped flaxseeds
• Melon

It taste so delicious!

During the summer, I mostly use peaches, melon, apricots, watermelon because in my country they are very common and they are seasonal fruit.

It is very important to use seasonal fruit because they are in their optimal state, ripe and full of vitamins.

In my opinion what really matters is being aware of where the veggie come from and how they have been cultivated.

*If you have the chance ask it to your dealer to make sure you know it*

Motivation

This morning I was thinking about motivation. What motivates people to do something they ardently want?

Whatever it is your purpose, you need to focus on why you want to do it.

I will try to summarize what worked for me (with some examples):

1. Inspiration

When I decided to go vegan I had a lot of doubts, I admit it, but I got my inspiration from almost 4 people:

The first one is my father. On his highest weight (110 kg – 242 pounds) he decided he couldn't go on like this because he wouldn't have been here today to see his daughter growing up. It took him 5 years to lose 40 kg and now he's one of the happiest person I've ever known.

Two years ago he also decided to go vegan and work on his body to be healthier and stronger for me and my mother.

He is such an inspiration to have the strength to change my life as he did!

The second one is a lovely girl named Alyse who has a youtube channel Raw Alignment (she is amazing) and last but not least two brothers from Norway (youtube channel Sweet Natural Living).

I got inspiration from them to follow my dreams, to keep studying about health and I had the chance to see with my eyes the real connection between being healthy and being happy.

For those you have any doubt about changing diet or you want to change your habits to feel better with yourself, I want you to know you have the strength to do it.

If you are scared or afraid about what can happen, just take your time to study the topic more and get into it then, try it when you feel ready.

You can discover that it may fits for you, it could even make you happy.

2. Support

If someone supports you for what you are doing, it will be like you are doing it together, it could be quite easier.

I'm really lucky because my family always supported me for almost everything I did in my life. I know maybe not everybody can say the same.

I went to xfactor last year, I'm not that proud of how it went, but my father was there for me, to support me anyway.

During the audition I made a mistake and I just gave up, I knew that was not what I want to do with my life.

That experience gave me the chance to learn one of the most important things in life:

The best supporter for you... is you.

Believe in yourself and you will do whatever you want.

You can make mistakes, but it doesn't matter because every mistake will let you know more about yourself.

3. Intuition

Potentially you can completely change your life overnight, but if you aren't ready it will only upset you.

This is what intuition stands for, you need to find the optimal conditions to be ready to change, physically and mentally.

It is similar to when you read a book: some years ago it may was insignificant, but if you read it today it might be a revelation.

Things need time to happen, if not today, maybe tomorrow.

Let me know what works for you, what you are planning for the future and how far you want to arrive!

This is my story.

Hi,

I'm Anna, an 18 girl from Italy. I decided to start this blog to share with the world my story and my journey to an happy and healthy life. If someone is reading this, make a noise, comment below and let me know what you think!

This is my story, different (maybe similar) to others, just mine.

I've never felt confortable with food. Since I was young I've always been very choosy, my diet only consisted in dairy products, meat, sweets and a few types of veggies and fruit.

Obviously, following such a bad lifestyle, I've always been an overweight child.

I had no confidence, no self esteem, just nothing to be proud of.

Growing up, I went though bullying and people always made fun of me. Five years ago ( I was only 13), I was diagnosed with depression, social anxiety disorder and OCD.

I used to spend my days feeling extremely sad and commiserating myself. I self-harmed until one year and a half ago, it is not a secret for who knows me in person.

I have had enough of it, I couldn't take it anymore.

I just wanted to care about myself more than I did before, so after some therapies I stopped harming myself.

I started surrounding myself with positive people, colours and positive vibes. I also started feeling confortable with my scars which I know for sure it was one of the scariest things to me.

I am now on my last high school year and my life is completely different, maybe a little bit lonely, but absolutely happier.

It took me a long time to recover, but now I have the stregth to make my life even better.

I want my life to be healthy, happy and full of great experiences.

I currently pursue my passion for photography, music and travelling. 

I used to be vegetarian for the last year and three months ago I got interested in veganism and health consciousness for the first time, I went vegan since then.

I also started exercising more and doing a lot of little actions to make my days full of positive vibes.

I'm here to lend a hand to everyone who wants to get better from a bad experience/period and to tell my story because happiness is real only when shared (Into the wild).

P.s. If I made some mistakes I'm sorry.