Say, Can You Hear?
Last week I wrote about the warm weather and blue skies, how ironic for me to be writing this while sitting in the middle of a shaken snowglobe!
Amidst progress in my freelance and professional life, the stressors of adult life seem determined to keep me down a few pegs. Nonetheless the persistence of optimism prevails.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase “when it rains, it pours.” I think life does certainly have a way of feeling stakced up and overwhelming. I can attest to that in my last week alone. That said I think it has so much more to do with the longevity of the good in our lives that makes the difficult moments so pronounced. Goodness doesn’t happen instantaneously, it takes effort and time, a willingness to persevere.
Life is confusing. Being in your early 20s, I’ve come to find, is synonymous with lack of clear direction and reliance on trial and error. I’ve done the best I can to treat life as my playground in this situation, but it has certainly come with its fair share of confusion and experimentation.
I’ve recently begun a process to move homebases from Pittsburgh to Australia, the literal opposite end of the globe. This process has been as involved as it has been exciting and I’m looking forward to immersing myself in a totally new world of art, culture, and photographic opportunities. More to come on that soon. In the meantime my priorities have shifted to working as much as possible and taking as much time as I can afford to develop my eye and mature my voice.
I’d like to end this little blurb with a quote a friend of mine left me with recently;
“The path reveals itself only in hindsight, one must be like a reed in the wind.”
I think, admittedly, my friend was making an extra effort to come across as wise and thoughtful, but the sentiment remains. This whole life and career thing is complex and impossible to predict, but looking back on my life up to this point I can already begin to make connections. As anxious as I may be in this particular moment, I’m very much looking forward to seeing the wild and wonderful places I know life will take me soon enough.
Until next week.
