Stepping in with Photography

a life I stepped into

It is the middle of the day and I believe I have dodged writing this post for long enough. Last night I was praying and thinking about photography while I was trying to sleep. Sleep wasn't coming because I was trying to sleep way earlier than I am used to and also because I was thinking. (Thinking, I believe, is the number one cause for insomnia)

I believe I am a deep thinker and I love talking about deep things so please go with me while I share my thoughts. Like I stated earlier, I am laying there thinking about photography and I realize that photography give me the opprotunity to live my life with people. Not from afar, like I am used to, but up close and personal. For short spans of time I get to step into people's lives and they step into mine. What can happen in those moments? How could we change each others lives for the better? Why are we meeting other than the obvious need for pictures? How will having that picture, that not only captures the moment but also the smells and emotions of the moment, affect them? How does my life flavor their memory? Obviously I don't have the answers but I am beginning to see God's plain for me more and more. I think life is about to get really interesting and full.

I also have begun to define myself differently. I used to see myself as antisocial and a content hermit. I now refuse to be that. Who I am today is someone who enjoys the peace of solitude as well and the challenge and joy that comes with steping into strangers lives and hopefully leaving it for the better.


Peace.