So lately I've been thinking about serious things, but good things. A new website, new studios name which will really flow along with the directions I want to take my work.
www.AnyRoadPhotography.com
Things I've been thinking about...like where have I been to get here? If that path was somehow changed, would I still be here as I am in this moment? From here, where will I be going, and would that place be the same no matter how long or which direction I take to move from this moment?
Talking circles, I know I know. But I'm just working through thoughts here. I don't believe in fate and that everything we do is predestined to happen no matter what. What if it's not our entire life set firmly, but just moments? Like a bead on a thread, important places on that thread have a hard bead. But the equally important thread can be short, long, fat, or fraying. And it can tear. Everything we experience makes us a whole person, but the really important moments in our lives are unchangeable. The time and path between those moments can really be different and yet somehow still lead to the next important moment.
So that milestones in life for each of us is planned, destined, fated or whatever you want to call it. But the filler, the fluff, the seconds and decades in between those moments we have choice over. It's unknown. We can take the time between and realize that it can change how those firm moments affect us.
And these milestones might not be what we generally assume to be important. Driver's license, first kiss, graduation, career or marriage...they might not fall into a category like that but perhaps more subtle. We might not even recognize it as important, but shape our lives more than we imagine. A thought, a hug, something spoken to us.
For me one "bead" was a conversation in the car, a mini road trip with my dad a couple years ago as we were headed home from a family reunion. And he told me that though I'm unconventional and don't always do things the way he would, he was proud of me. That I was his free-spirited child. (child, lol I'm 31!!) He encouraged me to follow my heart, join the Peace Corp, get into photojournalism. Move to Hawaii! Or any other state or country that suited me. While it's nice to have praise and encouragement anytime from a parent, it was really a moment where I felt validated in who I am. That I'm quirky, out there, free, stubborn and a dreaming artist but I was perfect at being me.
So what "beads" can you look back and see? Perhaps you didn't know at the time but now you do? Big or small, what are some moments in your life that were monumental?
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