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I’ve always been fascinated about the human mind and what makes people act. Being a constant reader of specialty articles and a constant presence in workshops and projects, I thought I knew myself. It was a couple of years ago when the shift started to happen and I didn’t know what hit me.

Who doesn’t enjoy travelling? Well, not so many people. And most likely, they didn’t discover the good places yet. I knew I enjoyed discovering new places, but little did I know how much that would change me.  When I actually stopped from travelling from one place to another and I decided to stay in just one country for more than 10 days, something happened. And that was the moment when I didn’t stop discovering the outside world, but I started to discover my inside world as well.

After many European projects, volunteering in Film Festivals or for environment causes and working in acquisitions and compliance, or as an English teacher, painting teacher, translator, insurance broker, marketing officer, communications officer, journalist  and others, I should know who I am, right? Wrong. We change every day. An experience may change us, a pet may change us…even a sunrise may change us. It doesn’t have to be a big change to be significant. In time, small changes add up. And if we don’t strive to discover who we are, what makes our heart sing and we don’t ask ourselves important questions like “where do we come from?”, “what do we actually want in life?”, “which are the right people to be surrounded by” and other relevant questions, we will lead a good life. But I believe it would be a boring one. Most likely, it would be another’s life, another’s dream, not yours.

Now I started another journey, in a different area of expertise and I couldn’t be more excited. Knowing what you don’t want in your life is the first step in knowing who you are. You cross things off your list. But you never cross the constant discovery of yourself, or what I like to call YOUscovery.