Life? What is it? How is it? Easy? Hard? These questions merely serve as a foundation to the many thoughts that generate in my mind. Day by day. Hourly. Every minute. Every second. I grow sad. I don’t have this. I don’t have that. I’m not this. I’m not that. I stop. Reflect. Realize. Remember. Appreciate. I am living. I am breathing. I am fortunate. Sometimes I feel like I have it hard. Like the world is falling on me. Like I have nothing. Like I am nothing. I sit there. Alone. Quiet. In the Light. Shrouded in Darkness. I Give in. I Cry. Most importantly because I can’t believe. I can’t accept. Not the fact that I’m fortunate, but the fact that there are many others out in the world who aren’t nearly as fortunate. Humanity. Gone. If people truly cared, there would not be one soul struggling to succeed. We’d all be fortunate. We’d all have a better chance. Who are we? What are we? Human we are not.
So, what i decided to do was put together different photographs that all tied together to show as example of life experiences. Life experiences that I have gone through. Life experience that create memories. Life experiences that I should appreciate because I am fortunate enough to have such memories. The photographs themselves were taken as they were. I just simply walked around, happily. Enjoying the fact that i’m taking this class. Venturing from place to place with my fancy camera. Occasionally stopped. Then Snapped and moved on. Ultimately, for this project I not only wanted it to be a little more personal, but to open people’s eyes and make them remember. Remember their own memories, or experiences that they might cherish. Appreciating the fact that you’re alive. You’re breathing. You’re free. If I had the time and space i’d create a whole room, a whole building, a whole nother world full of all of the experiences that i’ve had in life just to take the time to appreciate every single one of them. Instead of thinking, “I do not have that,” take the time to reflect to think more along the lines of, “but i have this.”