I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about the really tough questions.  You know the ones …

“What am I doing with my life?”
“Where is this all going?”
“How am I making the world a better place?”

Ya, those ones.

This is the kind of thinking that always leaves me in a tailspin.  Somedays I feel like I lead a double life – my professional engineering life and then my airbrush/website life – and the two are always in constant battle with one another.

It’s these questions that make me feel like I should “just choose already”.  Either you are a super successful engineer, or, you are an internet airbrush artist. Unfortunately, because being an internet airbrush artist doesn’t exactly pay the bills, it is always the one that ends up on the mental chopping block.

But here’s the thing …. I LOVE AIRBRUSHING!

I love art, I love the people I have met and helped and built relationships with, I love the pride that I feel when I make something that I never thought I was capable of, I love saving my pennies to attend airbrush events. I love it all and I can’t let it go. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I’d leave my engineering job and do this full time.  Hell, I’d do it double time.

I was lucky enough to discover my passion and I feel obligated to pay attention to it!

I was so fortunate to stumble on to airbrushing when I did.  It was a time in my life when I really, really needed it.  I needed something to look forward to, I needed something to get me out of the bed in the morning and, most of all, I needed something that made me feel good about myself.

What I have realized through this recent bout of soul-searching is that what I love about this website, in addition to the airbrushing part of it, is the thought that I may be helping some lost soul out there discover their passion … and that makes my heart smile.

There are thousands of people just like me who desperately need to find their passion. I remember what it was like to feel passion-less.  I know how awful that feels.  I want to help make that feeling go away.

So, things are going to change around here…

From this point forward, Airbrush-Guidance has a new mission:

  1. To remind people that it is never too late to find your passion in life, or, to develop a new one.
  2. To continually remind people that they are worthy of their artistic and creative desires, and, even if you can’t dedicate your whole life to them, it is still worth pursuing those desires.
  3. To help people navigate the world of airbrushing by sharing product information, event details, showcasing other artists, and creating a community of people that genuinely want to see each other succeed.
  4. To help people learn how to airbrush by providing tutorials, answering questions and offering training.

What do you all think of this new direction?  Is there anything I should add?  Anything you are desperately searching for that I could help with? Let me know in the comments.

Love

Shani