I have been doing a photo project on flickr
gratitude project 30 days & the photo above is my entry for today, today i am grateful for the journey in which our life takes us.
it's funny you know, life, i've been heading in a new direction this year, taking the time to make sure i make the time to enjoy the things that i love to do & to share them, i think because for such a long time i felt like i was just going through the motions, you know, sleep, get up, eat, shop, housework, work, sleep, get up, eat, shop, housework, work, you get the drift...i didn't really make the time for much else in my life aside from the usual everyday distractions, passion was lacking, i was just living day in, day out. I had taken up a hobby of photography a couple of years ago, it just started by taking pics here & there at family get togethers & stuff like that, then it progressed & i did a course & i started to take photos more & more & then i got myself a
flickr account & i got interested in post processing & i started to read blogs & then i found
shutter sisters & a bunch of other fun stuff including
taking flight & before you know it, i'm doing ecourses & photo projects & setting up my own blog so i have a place to share it & remember it (i have a poor memory for this sort of stuff) & i'm finally being creative again &
making things out of the pictures i've taken (no use keeping them on a hard drive) & i became part of a community that i can join in at anytime of the day & i'm probably rambling a bit but all along this journey, i've been thinking that life is funny, it's like all of the pieces of the puzzle are starting to connect for me & i feel like i am finally on the path that i am meant to be on...& it's a knowing feeling...like an a ha moment..thats why this happened & why that happened, u know what i mean...like since i was a girl i always made things, i sewed & crafted & i kept journals & i wrote poems & i collected things & i had little boxes of treasures for all the things that i loved, & i had millions (well prob not millions but ALOT of photos & albums) i have kept alot of these things & some i have not & wished that i had, a teacher in high school told me to 'keep writing' & i wonder why it's the only comment i remember from a teacher & someone told me i would study again & i laughed because i thought after getting into travel that, that was it for me, so for a long time i stopped doing these things & i stopped having the things that i loved around me out on display & i didn't take photos & make albums & write & read..& well i didn't feel like me... i felt like a little bit of a stranger to myself really..i don't know if that will make sense but i hope some of you 'get it'..& so here i am, on this path that i feel like i should be on & in a way it's like it has been a journey back to me, i don't know where it is going to lead because i feel like it will be my lifes journey, i feel like i have arrived at the path i was meant to walk & that the lead up to that path just all needed to be connected, I am so happy to be here & I can't help but be excited about it....in some ways i wish i had arrived earlier but i do know that everything happens at the time it's meant to & even though we may not understand it, at some point, all the pieces are bound to come together & that it's truly, never too late...what do you love to do, what is your passion? where did your journey start? where are you now? & where are you headed? I'd love. love. love. for YOU, to share....
