Travel Writer, Photographer, Model…

My professional life has come to an unavoidable trifurcation. My dream and goal has always been to be a writer. However, my life for the past 2 years has been dedicated (don’t ask me why) almost entirely to photography and traveling, with just the occasional articles and my intimate diary to keep the pen moving.

In the last month I was finally able to launch our own photography business along with my partner. With our limited investment potential we couldn’t afford hiring a model, for now. Guess what? Yes, the logical step in order to reduce costs was for me to become our model, besides the make-up artist, creative director, etc.

At first, I was not so happy with the idea. You know? My problem is the harder I try to keep focused on just one thing at a time, the more dispersed I get. Surprisingly, we ended up having lots of fun while shooting and experimenting all the different facades, expressions and looks that we could achieve with just one model and three lights. It is amazing! And our portfolio has started selling well!

Under the circumstances, I decided to stop fighting my nature and find the best way of doing the 3,000 things that I want, keeping contact with the 300+ people that I care so much about and put up with these 3 roles all at the same time. Why should I decide for just one out of these 3 paths that opportunity is presenting me?

It seems to me that multitasking is my destiny by decision. I just can’t stand still. I simply cannot sit in the same place, do the same thing, see the same people for too long.  That’s my sin, that’s my cross… I’ll turn it into my bliss.

Why not? After all I only have this ONE life, this ONE year, this ONE second to embrace, to travel, to write, to photograph and to love.

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