Everything is black and white,
I can see while I don't see anything
It seems like living without eyesight
I am desperately searching for my longings wellspring.

Then, looking back, remembering,
The joy of life used to surround everything,
In my despair I started trembling,
When did I forget how to sing and swing?

But this absence of happiness didn't last forever,
I began to hope and believe again,
Telling myself again and again to just start over
A slow, increasing comeback of feelings, color that I will maintain.

I found myself in a place I never wanted to be,
Again, in love with the process of creation,
I will never ever forget how to see,
Living a life, colorful, vibrant and full of passion.

First hello to everyone. Since I am new to this platform I want to do an ''introduceyourself'' post just like a lot of other people did because I think it is a good way to start connecting to likeminded people on steemit. So, here I go: My name is Inga, I am 19 years old and I live in Germany. This little poem up there scratches the surface of how I got to be the person I am right now and how I experienced life up until now. But since I am not a native English speaker I guess I should explain myself a little bit more and tell you why I created this account and what I want to achieve with it.
Let's say in the past years I haven't been really well (not because of something special, just my brain going more or less a little crazy) but through that I have learned a lot about myself, what kind of person I want to be and what things are really important to me.
I rediscovered my love for playing volleyball and playing the piano in the last year; not that I ever stopped since I began playing volleyball with 11 years and piano with 9 years but for more than 5 years I didn't feel anything in regards to absolutely everything. Because of this I even stopped drawing or creating in general even though this was something I always loved doing. But just like my passion for playing volleyball and the piano my passion for drawing came back as well, stronger than it has ever been.
But let the past be the past; I still struggle from time to time with falling back in my old habits but I guess this is normal. My perspective on life changed completely and I now think that you can learn something from everything and everyone in life, you just need to learn how to see it.
I created this account because I want to share what I have learned in the past years; not that I claim to know everything, not at all. I still feel like I don't know anything about life but at least I figured out how I need to look at life so I can be happy. Maybe this can help someone else as well. Since I also love drawing and writing I want to connect both to hopefully make someone's day a little bit brighter with my future posts.
Until now I only told you about my main three passions in life but I am the kind of person that loves a lot of things. For example I love reading fantasy books, I am interested in science, I like philosophy and in general thinking about the purpose of life and things like that. Wrapping my brain around complex and difficult topics is something I really enjoy doing and I find it kind of satisfying.

So now to wrap my unstructured mess of introduction up there, here is what I want to do with this account:

Sharing my outlook on life and at the same time learn from other people that (may) comment.
I want to do that through art, writing and photography.
I hope that I can make a positive impact on someones' life.

I can't tell you exactly where I will be going with this account since this is my first time creating a more serious social media account but I am sure I will have a lot of fun with this.

You may already have an idea where my writing poems skills are (not that high in a foreign language; it is definitely not easy for me to write poems in English :D ) but you have no idea what I like to draw. That's why here are some random pics of what I did in the last few months:

https://i.imgur.com/Bmh28PG.png

I did that one with colored pencils and a white gel pen

https://i.imgur.com/j57W1Me.png

This one is for my see-through mobile phone case; in general I did a lot of these for my sister and friends

https://i.imgur.com/JlIXSQp.png

This is a wedding card I drew for a friend of mine

I guess you got a little idea of what and how I draw. Just so you know, I am really bad at drawing humans but I am working on that at the moment so hopefully in the near future you will get to see some people in my artworks.

I am looking forward to my time here on steem it! Get ready for a lot of different content since I didn't say to much how I want to reach my goals with this blog. I have a lot of ideas in my head :)!