When you've made shit out of everything...

...is when you feel the most alive. Welcome to my world again.

You feel bad about yourself...

when you've had the same make-up on for two sequential days because it still looked good after you woke up.

One of those days...

...I'll snap. But not yet.

Deconstruction

When you're small, you have to rely on other people to live. These people seem like gods to you. Becoming autonomous means that you no longer need them but you still have people who teach you things, inspire you deeply. And you think they're so great and so sure about their words. And then you become one of them. And realise that nothing was ever like that. When you're someone others expect things from, you realise that neither you, nor the people you have expected things from are some kind of super human. There are doubts. And there is time spent and fatigue. You feel like doubting the communication you have daily. And then you understand that all these people were full of doubts too. But the taught you a lot of things. That's where you rejoice.

Transitions

Either it's for some days or forever. We're in the age of trasitions. We're in the process of coming of age and going towards new directions. My friends are leaving their homes to go to new homes, new towns, new universes. I can't complain, I'm doing the same. But sometimes I can't help but wonder: will we ever cross roads after this? The song's lyrics are giving me a permanent answer

I've lost many people. I'm living far away from even more people. But I'll always love them and they'll know it. And vice versa

I could fall in love with this town...

If you believe that I ain't already. I've been in Thessaloniki for two days now and I consider staying. Forever.    Well, not currently, but I consider it a dreamy alternative vs Athens. The only problem is that, for the first months at least, I'll tend to sulk close to the sea all day. Here, I feel like living in a Theo Angelopoulos movie, even when what I do is pretty common. I was visiting the photography museum yesterday that's on the docks and a hidden musician was playing the theme from "an eternity and a day". Really. I've been fighting with my new 28mm lens for the last days. I wonder if I'll be able to manage that wideness. We'll see...Greetings from Salonica for instance.

Forever is a lie

Some days ago, I was about to write a post about cynicism. It was never written due to my sleepiness. But there is another way to talk about it.
The word "forever" is an utter lie. Nothing can last forever. Neither humans, nor their creations. Not even the system. We see situations changing around us every day. The thing is, I think, to be aware of that. Sometimes, when you're in a situation, you think it's going to be for life. And then you get lazy and stop appreciating the little things that make it wonderful. (The only case that defies my concept are the eternally in love couples, but I'm mostly not refering to love here)
You probably start realizing thins when you're at the end of something, or even after the end. That nothing is for granted. That some things don't happen anymore, because we've grown past them.
You can't go to play every day and wake up in the afternoon, because you have a job. or because you're thriving to end your studies to get a job (you wish). Or because you've done it too much and from some point on, it loses it's point. And you miss the trips, the tips, the culture, the lazy days. Even though, they make you wiser.

Like a kid in a candy shop

Fascination is one of the things that become seldom when you grow up. Kids can be fascinated with anything. Cynic adults, on the other side, keep their blazé, I-know-everything look. It seems like, the more fascinated you are, the more creative you are.
And it happened to me. Today. You know, when you're in architecture school and all you learn about is theoretical knowledge, even when it's supposed not to be (don't misunderstand, I love things like art history), having to make something in real size that fuctions makes you helpless. And then, you go to people who have nothing to do with art history, but make very real things. I went to the smith shop today. I was happy like the kind in a candy shop. And there were some really kind people willing to explain to me everything that I'll never learn in architecture.
I even got a new ring (that's supposed to hold rubber but oh, who cares. Creativity, as we said)

Do you love yourself?

I've beeen absent for a long time, I know. For no specific reason. Maybe the fact that I haven't been shooting lately played a part in it.
The key word of the phase I'm going through is tired (I could even say exhausted, but that would be too much, I think). I don't know if I've gotten old, cold or if I'm more active than before, but the rare times that I sleep a lot, I wake up happy. And then came the hormones.
Women are peculiar creatures when it comes to hormones. They turn from waterfalls to monsters. And the damn hormones bring the issue of self-loathing.

Do you love yourself?

The question has no obvious answer. It depends on the day. It depends on how others appreciate you. It depends on the hormones we were discussing about before. But it is ESSENTIAL to one's well being.
When you loathe yourself, you should take a break. Because you're dangerous for yourself and anybody around you, or at leat the close ones. Take a break, breathe, go slow and appreciate yourself. Because if you don't, you might kill someone on the way. I hope not literally.  So, kit kat.

Random post again. But these are tough times.

Quotes, again

"You really can’t teach photography, and what you really can’t teach that photographers need, is curiosity. You cannot teach curiosity. If you’re not curious about life then you’re just spinning your wheels."

— Dennis Darling (via photographsonthebrain)(via photographsonthebrain)
(via tokyo camera style)
He's right

http://tokyocamerastyle.com/post/33994105786/you-really-cant-teach-photography-and-what-you