The world is filled with people who impress, inspire and who you aspire, giving us the sense that we want and should pursue something that seems unreachable. Life isn’t only made up by the dreams we have, but rather the reality we live and the things we have, something that not always is appreciated as it should. I’ve pin pointed several times that, one of the reasons I Life You turned into such a big part of my life, is because it made me a different person, who started paying attention to the most mundane things of life.
If you think about it, most lifestyle blogs are like that, they show you what’s going on in other people’s lives while turning a grocery run into a post worthy thing. We are talking about living and acknowledging not only complex, but simple facts that compose our everyday life. Wednesday could’ve been an ordinary day, except it wasn’t. I went to Manhattan on the hunt of Garance Doré‘s new book, Love x Style x Life, and she happened to be signing it at Club Monaco, on fifth.
It’s not everyday you get to meet the person behind one of the blog’s you have been following for years now and, believe it or not, was one of the reasons you decided to start your own blog. Garance is an illustrator who started blogging in her 30’s and is now a worldwide phenomenon, not only in the blogosphere. Her book is written a lot like her posts, with a fresh, unpretentious and casual way, sort of like she’s talking to you over a coffee, which is not an easy thing to do.
Her life is a series of achievements and failures and, especially the failures, got me hooked on her book that I’m almost halfway through. She talks about it like a part of life – which they are – and doesn’t want to hide them – because we shouldn’t. Even though blogs and social media can seem to only portray happy times, they are good for the bad times as well, granting you access to people that maybe and probably have been or are going through the same struggles you are.
Safe to say, those two minutes we spent talking – she told me she loves Portugal and has been on a road trip north to south – were amazing and led me to believe anything is possible, even if you’re on the verge of turning 27 and have no big career perspectives. Thank you Garance, for your blog, your book and your kind words that I’m sure will reach out to everyone who will read them.