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I’ve Drawn 7 Beautiful Things About This World You Can Experience Right Now

4 min readNov 13, 2024

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With everything that’s been going on, it’s easy to feel like the world is hopeless and maybe even ugly. But all it takes is to engage with ourselves, the nature and people around us to realize that there are beautiful things we can experience right now.

I went through the archive of my drawings over the last two years and I found what moments in life inspired me the most. I know that these are the key moments because I usually only create funny cartoons and drawings like these tend to feel like “a waste of time”. And in these moments, I stopped what I was doing and honored these experiences with a drawing.

1. Dance

Inspired by Kate Bush dancing in the video of “Running Up That Hill”, I wondered what it would feel like to allow my body to move in whatever way it wants to whenever it wants to. I sometimes remember how beautiful it is to have a body that can move.

2. Falling leaves

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Ana Krajinovic
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Written by Ana Krajinovic

A linguist and comic researcher, PhD, and comic creator writing about mental health, languages, creativity, and life stuff (also on anakrajinovic.substack.com)