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Chapter One

  • Nov 5, 2025
  • 2 min read
I only felt that I must, that the world inside me was too alive to remain there, unwritten.

There are beginnings that don’t come from decisions. They rise from a warm feeling, from a joy too full to hold inside, from a summer day that catches you smiling for no reason.


For a long time, I’ve felt that a part of me wanted to take shape in words. I was already writing, poems, thoughts, fragments. And one day, I knew: I will write a book.


I don’t know exactly what it will be; I only know that I want it to be full of life. Of light, of freedom, about the joy of creating, about the freedom to dream without explaining, about the beauty of the world when you look at it with clear eyes.


I write because I love life, because every day carries something worth keeping, and this book will be the place where I gather them all.

It will be about beauty, about the art of living slowly, deeply, and colorfully, about the delicacy of the world, about summers that cannot be forgotten, about days that smell of sun and freedom.


I only know that I want it to be alive. I don’t want to write about art as theory; I want to write about art as living.


Sometimes my happiness does not look spectacular. It lives in quiet mornings, in soft light, in a song that fits my mood just right.


Some ask me why I want to write a book at twenty. The truth is, I never thought about age. I only felt that I must, that the world inside me is too alive to remain there, unwritten.


The wish to write came from joy, from gratitude for everything I’m living, for people, for art, for the moments that make life beautiful. I don’t know how my book will be, but I know what it will feel like. It will feel like life. It will have color, warmth, freedom.


Maybe art, in the end, is only the way we choose to see the world.

And I choose to see it as beautiful.



This is just the beginning, a promise to myself and to everyone who will be part of this journey.

Some words will find their way here, on the blog, as fragments of what’s taking shape.

The rest will stay where they belong, kept close, waiting for the book to hold them.


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