Here is a fact about me: I live in a small village near a — even smaller — town. And I am not exactly sure how to think about this because I think of it in two different ways.

The first thought is: I really love it to be able to look out of a window and see all the green around our house. The air and the fields.

But all this is not everything. There are many things about it which are not that nice. For instance I have this ‘how do I come to school‘ problem. And not just that distances generally are a problem.

The next problem I encounter is that here are many people who do not fit my thinking. I differ a lot. And I had some problems throughout my childhood what did not make it any easier!

Probably the last thing I would like to mention is the fact that you meet just very few people who do the same you do. For me that is photography, social-networking, web-development and all this new media stuff. On one hand this is great because I have less competition, on the other hand it is bad because I have nobody to talk to about my professions and this leads to the problem that it is hard for me to evolve!

One thing I think can change all this is the idea of traveling more. I plan to do that more over the next year and further. I plan on visiting people I met somewhere and never saw since. I plan on attending meet-ups and congresses / camps around my town — not just the once which are 10km away but also the once which are 100km and more away!

What do you think about this idea? How do you solve such problems or don’t you have any of those?

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