This is neither rant, nor complaint, it's just talk. Talk about me being a kid for a day 馃槀 Today I decided to take it easy and relax as I feel like both my body and mind need a break and for me the best way to do that is occupy my hands and attention on something creative and fun. A few of these activities are sewing, drawing or coloring. Sewing needs a bot more attention as precision is key, so I decided to do a bit of coloring.
It is called The secret garden and it's a coloring book for adults I have for a decade or more and still only a few pages are colored. Yeah, shame on me.
The drawings are quite complex and you see like 0.001% colored on a few and the rest is still waiting for me.
The reason I love this particular one is because it leaves room for you to add your own creativity, design the free space on the pots for example.
Here for example there's room to design the flowers and the butterflies further. It's a great practice for those who want to evolve in the world of art and are at the beginning.
Recently I bought another one, which is very different from the first one and it is called Manic Botanic.
As you can see, it's quite complex and you really have to have a vision about how it's going to look like before you start and plan the colors accordingly.
I took out my arsenal (what you se here is only half of it though) and my Hotel Transylvania pencil case and got ready for the big job 馃槅
Freedom here is grated, you can do whatever you want and as an adult, there are no parents to judge you or scold you for creating green petals or using unrealistic colors 馃ぃ
You can see I did a crappy job at it as I'm not in the best shape, but that's besides the point as I'm not competing today, not even with myself. But if I am to take this seriously, it's a nice way of focusing on precision.
The reason I love these activities is because first of all it takes me away from my daily activity, from trading and helps me sort out my thoughts So basically what I'm creating is less important, the focus is on relaxing and thinking of the future, or the past to learn what went wrong and what needs to be changed. Digital drawing is a bit different as you have a blank page and it's on you to create something amazing or just acceptable, which needs focus and as I'm not an artist, that's not exactly the sheer definition of relaxing for me, so today I chose coloring.
But this is not the only kiddy thing I have done lately 馃槅 The other one is heavier 馃檲 and it's not just for a day, so please don't tell anyone 馃ぃ
See what I mean? 馃槀 I got an ad on my phone, from a well known and trusted platform selling shoes, with 70% discount, so I thought let's check it out as sales these days are a good opportunity buy good, leather shoes.
I bought a pair of black suede shoes, but browsing through the offer, I saw these cloggs and were literally calling my name. There were like 10 different colors and designs and after an hour of thinking, I said, YOLO and ordered these. They got delivered yesterday, so today I got to wear them already, even while coloring 馃槃
I'm still laughing when I look at them and others would too, but these will be only for home use. I don't go out wearing flip flops, unless I'm going to the beach, but I would not wear these at the beach either. When I was a kid, we didn't have these things as those were other times, so I guess my subconscious is compensating me for that.
I guess it's good to go crazy every now and then and do things you don't usually do. I don't mean get drunk and smash something, I mean harmless, childish things. It helps you relax and also forget about the daily things. The market is going sideways during weekends as institutional players are not participating and traditional markets are closed, so I'm usually enjoying my weekend or studying, but an unusual day or two can't hurt.
So now I'm publishing my post and then going to hide behind the couch 馃ぃ
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