Smile Bright Like Light?

When I was a little boy and started to read and write I fell in love with small and huge fantasy books.

Diving into a different world, follow adventures which seem too unrealistic, laughing at jokes, solving a tricky mystery, seeking new informations, I just couldn’t get enough.

So I started also writing small stories in school which were read out loud.

My story were always funny and I liked seeing smiles on other people’s faces or them bursting out of laughter.

Still I learned an important lesson at that time. The urge of making my stories even funnier left me into a pitiful situation. I was standing in front of my school mates and read my story.

While giggling by myself over the jokes I’ve put into it, everyone stayed calm.

No smile, nobody laughing, it confused me.

At the end of the story, everybody hat to give a feedback and it was the same for everyone.

They said „The story itself was ok but you tried to hard to be funny. Everything felt forced. This isn’t your style. Up until now your stories felt more natural.“

At first this me hard but then I was asking myself What did I wanted to achieve with making it better and funnier? Everything I’ve written to that day made people smile or laugh.

What did I wanted more?

You can always improve yourself but first analyze what people don’t like instead of changing what people really like.

I learned that lesson at the age of ten and it already changed my perspective of how to improve myself.

As my life went on I always kept on reading and writing but with less time I couldn’t achieve what I wanted.

My very first book.

My brain put out ideas over ideas but they never made it to paper.

Over the last two years I worked (and still am working) on a huge fantasy saga called „The Chronicles of Life and Death“.

Every other day I got a new idea, which results in rewriting the part that I already had written.

So it was still going nowhere.

I'm currently working at a new company that sells luminaires with professional consultation to the clients.

10 years into that industry and there were still several brand unknown to me.

So I started blogging on LinkedIn, writing little promotions to get to know these brands and products.

Every post was written in English, before that day I always wrote in German but I wanted to reach a more international audience.

It helped me improving my English skills. Inspired by this I decided to write down my book and this blog also in English.

Smile bright like Light stands for my love to put a smile on people’s face and my current work as lighting consultant.