The Menagerie.
Menagerie - A collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition.
Everyone is their own beast. They have individual and unique quirks. Interesting dispositions and differing ideologies. The idea with marketing and psychology is that, as a species, homo sapiens all have a similar base and similar triggers that lead down a certain path. No matter how different we are, or may feel, we are never alone and we are not that different. Someone at some point in history, or at some place on the world has felt what you feel. Realize this, and realize your value. I believe that the world is full of exceptional individuals who either haven’t been shown the right way to view things or haven’t seen things in the right way themselves.
Love
I was talking to someone a bit ago. And I was talking about how much I was enjoying writing at the time. They stopped me for a moment and said, “Wow, I wish I loved writing that much.” I responded with a hint at that it took a lot of time and effort to come this far but you know, we kind of shared a laugh and went about our days.
I kept thinking about it though… It’s not like I was born loving to write or knowing how to write my thoughts. It’s a process that I put myself into day after day, year after year. I had a love and hate relationship with it, as I have with other arts and you know, I pushed through it.
We aren’t necessarily born loving anything. Not writing, not our spouse, not football, or beer. Nothing really. Love is a practice, not an emotion. Love is the idea that no matter what, I’m going to show up for this person or thing. No matter how hard it is for me to write across this blank page, I’m going to do it, and dedicate myself to it. I have learned to love it! It was not a gift, or something I was born with. It is something I cultivated and I love that. Take pride in the things you love and practice. You earned it. Dedication is not cheap.
You be the sun and I’ll be the moon.
So that when we say goodbye we’ll always say, I’ll see you soon.
I hope you guys are doing well out there. I am starting to let some ideas for my next project percolate. I don’t want to rush it, but expect a slow down on my social media presence. I am going to shift my focus to creating very high quality single images, and there is a good amount of learning I need to do to accomplish what I believe I am capable of. It will be a gradual decrease, and I expect I will make a video or some sort, but I’m not committing to anything.
Yeah, thank you for reading. If the hypothetical you exists! Let me know what you’d like to read about next week.
Much love,
Stay Warm.
dc
