I just had a really good chat with esther, and during our chat she brought up a wonderful thing about how photo relate to us. She showed me her post and its so insightful and so to the heart of the issue, i had to copy it here.pls do read it and enjoy
Memories.
But I cannot make you happy.Photographs. Everybody likes to take photos everywhere we go, with whoever we meet, and whatever we see, so as to remember why we take these pictures, and the moments we used to have. The extent of taking photographs varies, such that some people would pose properly and purposely to appear pretty in the pictures, while some people would take any shot that last within a second, in which when you miss the shot, you miss it all.
Cameras implanted in handphones are getting so convenient, because we don't have to carry yet another camera with us just to take a few pictures which may not be as good as what the phone cameras can provide. For most phones, we can even add effects (night effect, some brown colour effect, etc.), frames, or even pictures when taking the photo, so as to add in more excitement and laughter when looking back at them.
But are we forgetting something?
I mentioned about the purpose of taking photos, where we go, who we are with, what we see, and why we take the photo shot... but how do we feel at the point when the photograph was being taken?
I personally don't take alot of photographs, but from what I see in the TV, from the people around me, I think that photographs are like contradictory items that we should just throw them away.
Take for instant, you just broke up with your girlfriend/boyfriend. But when you were looking through the photos taken with your other half, you either laugh over it because you had moved on, or cry bitterly because you are still struck with the break-up
.Let me ask you then, is this the purpose why you take the photo in the first place? To let you cry day and night because you predicted that both of you might not be together in the end? To let you get all so sad that once the picture is in your head, you'd act all so moody and dead all day long?
Nope. Of course those are not the reasons why you take the photos, right?
We take photos, because we want to remember the moments we share with the people, what we were doing at the very place and time, and how we felt at that time. This, my friend, is the actual and the correct meaning of what we call memories. To remember the happy times together, not to remind you of your break-up. If it is a reminder about your break-up, then you should, like what I said, just throw them all away. If that is the case, then there is certainly no point keeping those photos with you, isn't it?
I can only make you smile, but the way how you see things, will then allows you to be happy.
from esther
"Esther , teasure your views from your heart and soul, regardless the tides that crash in cause they may say you are a dreamer and all but dont forget they are dreamers out there too and i hope one day i'll be a dreamer just like you . haha "
12:02 AM ; smile'
thePROFILE;
hey Aloysius here
currently slacking
and trying to figrure out
why fishball taste so good
so wish bert is here
to read this
theLOVE;
What i like?
lol,lots of stuff
but isnt it better
if u just ask me in person
-im an accepting person
and love new things
-got anything pls share
ideas,facts,feelings,opinion
you have it , shoot it
theHATE;
what i hate?
errr...i TRY not to hate things
theWISH;
wishlist?
haha i'll let u know
when i figure something
but a good start
-is to be a better person
-Less formal
-have fun
-connect with more ppl
-deepen what friendships i have
