Big City Life | Brussels

This past week, I have been staying in Bruxelles for a pretty amazing internship. I still have two weeks to go, but how I wish it could be more. I’m not only taking the first steps towards doing the thing that I love. The internship also got me back in a “big city”. A place that breathes culture and movement. A place where I feel at home.

May & June Favorites 2016 | VIDEO

It’s monthly favorites time! Since I have been going through finals and therefore I was living like a hermet in my room, I found it hard to get together my favorites. I just hadn’t been doing a whole lot of fun stuff. However, every so often, I did put myself through some retail therapy and I found some gems along the way.

My Very First Beauty Products

First Beauty Products 

Let’s take a little stroll down memory lane and discuss the very first beauty products we ever bought. I got to know make up and beauty products in two phases. The first phase was the one when I was too embarrassed to ask for help and therefore was determined to figure everything out for myself. Do notice that this was before YouTube was a magic make up tutorial machine maker and before I could understand and talk proper English. So, online help was hard to find and if I did, I couldn’t make any sense out of it. And so little me took on this glorious beast that is Makeup all by herself. And I have to be honest, it could have been worse.

The Great Puzzle #9: Taking a Breather in the Ardennes

Dear Fall, welcome back. You were missed. 

This Is Not Enough

I have been considering to start vlogging. Not the kind where you sit down and talk to a camera. No. The document your life kind of vlogs that capture the beauty of the little things. The things we tend to forget. We don’t have any trouble remembering graduations, weddings, births, buying of first apartments and houses and cars and… It is the small things we forget. The smile after you see someone you love appear or that warm and fuzzy feeling you get from that first sip of coffee in the morning when you have waited that tiny bit longer before drink it. Those are the things I would like to capture. Beautiful heartwarming things. But lately I haven’t been noticing any of those. Trains and busses get missed, people are forgotten, friendships fizzle out and dreams turn out to be too far out of reach. I can’t shake the feeling that all of it might not be worth it. All the effort and heartbreak, what does it bring us? I see more and more lives wasted, people giving up on what they once truly believed in and I can’t help but feel like I’m lost in a sea of ugly. But then again that might be all the more reason to look harder, to get that camera and find the beauty worth fighting for.

My Bucket List

There is a lot I want to do with my life. Some things are small, some things are big. Here they are:

Write a book

Writing a book, I think, must be the most difficult and satisfying thing I could ever do. Creating something out of nothing by knitting ideas together and making them fit into a coherent story. To, then, crawl into someone’s head as they are reading your book and taking them on an adventure through the words you have written. And while being on that adventure, introducing them to your imaginary friends and enemies in the hope that they might become just a little bit more real.  There is nothing I would rather do.

Travel

I would like to see as much of the world as I possibly could. I want to understand different cultures. I want to visit the past by visiting the remains of it. I want to drift away while looking at breathtakingly beautiful landscapes. I want to let my imagination take me away, but never lose sight of what is right in front of me.

Meet one of my heroes

I would like to have coffee or cake or both with someone whom I look up to. Someone brilliant. Just so we could talk for a while. I would like to see where their minds go when they are not being asked questions.

Go to Disneyland

I need to go there.

Work in a bookshop and a library

These places and the people who work there make me happy. And I would love to be a part of that for a little while.

Work as a volunteer in a third world country

I want to see what life there is like, I want to understand it and I want to help.

Have a home library

I will have a pinterest worthy home library. There will be books, shelves, a coffee/tea/hot chocolate stand, socks, sofas, candles,… and quotes written all over the walls and the ceilings in glow in the dark paint.

Backpack through at least 2 countries

Pack a bag, a tent and a friend and go.

Graduate from an institution of higher education

Working on it…

Adopt a dog from a shelter

I love dogs and to be able to save one by giving them a new home would be amazing.

Have an article published in a paper

This would mean that I actually wrote something someone would want to read.

Make an entire outfit from scratch

My grandma and my mother used to make their own clothes. And they made some really beautiful stuff. So, I would like to learn how to do that too.

That is it for now! This list will probably keep on growing. And hopefully, I will also be able to tick some off.