"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken"

About being yourself and following your own path...

I came across the quote above by Oscar Wilde earlier today. It made me smile, because it's so true! I wanted to write something about it, but then I forgot about it.
After ending up on a blog a couple of minutes ago, it struck me that a lot of people could use reading this quote. Nothing wrong with the blog I ended up on, but there was nothing original about it! The person writing it seemed to be very influenced by some popular Swedish blogs. Same type of photos, same type of interests. Same way of writing.

There are a couple of blogs that I really enjoy reading, and that I keep on coming back to. One is written by a new mum (she had her baby in January, I in March), one by a vegan jeweler. They both manage to keep my interest, by being original and not copying what other people are doing.

I'm glad that I stumbled upon this quote, and then onto that blog. It made me even more determined to blog about the things I like, when I feel like it!

I'm sure that it's very easy to become influenced by other people. It happens to everyone, and this is something I'm going to try to remember when (if) I start on a 4 year goldsmith education in September. The teachers have their own style, and, even if they don't mean to, influence their students. This is the only negative thing I can come up with, when it comes to going to school to learn a craft. But I'm going to go there, learn the techniques and then use them my own way.

Right now I'm learning bezel setting, by myself, here at home!

Leaving tomorrow for a weeks vacation. Idar-Oberstein, here we come! I'll tell you all about it when I come home...