"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance in the rain." --Unknown
I experienced a loss last week that rocked my world to my core. It changed how I viewed life and things around me. How I viewed photography and my purpose in life and what goals I had made or were making to help me achieve them. I began to think about what I knew about myself as an individual and an artist.
As an artist and an individual we are all on a path. Some of ours curve around in circles others have tangents and some just stay right on a straight line. Things that happen around us effect each of us to our core. There is something about experiences that just have a way of changing you. These experiences can make you do a u-turn or even stop in your tracks and not move forward for a while. But there is something to be learned from the crazy tangents that life has a way of taking. You must learn who you are. Once you know who you are, then always be yourself in your journey. You are the only person qualified to be you, and people will notice. They will want to be around you because you are you. So for me as an artist and trying to figure out where to go from this bombshell, there is one thing that I know. I am me. I will always be me, and that is the most important thing. It doesn't matter what happens to me or what people think, because the only person whose opinion truly matters is my own. So where do I go from here.. well there is only one way. Forward. I will continue to do what I love and what I have been doing and just allow this experience to be absorbed and used in my art.
So to all of you out there.. take the good with the bad and let them make you who you are, remember.. you're the best person qualified for the job.
1 comment:
Teagan, I'm so sorry for your loss. I have a blog, and that very thought (learning to dance in the rain) is my header. It's the theme for my life. I'm glad you seem to be finding yourself. Hugs!
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