Earlier this year, one of my first post, I asked if you had a word that you would connect to that you would carry with you throughout the year as a gentle reminder to bring you back toward your goal.
My word was 'Deeper'. I wanted a deeper connection to everything. To my family and friends. To myself. To my art. To life in general. It's funny how when you put something like that out there in the universe and really focus on it, it becomes your shadow. Maybe not for everyone...yet it sure has for me.
I have felt a big shift in myself this year. I don't know if it has just been because I have been carrying this word around with me, attempting to connect deeper to many aspects of my life or if I have just felt different in my own life by the passing of time, my experiences and watching my boys grow up. Maybe it is a little of both... Yet I have. I have been in search of a deeper connection in every aspect of my life and although I am not all there yet, I am on the path.
It seems what I have really been connecting to on a deeper level has been my art. Unexpected in a way, yet somehow my thoughts have brought me there. I have always felt a deep connection to my work and the images I create, yet lately my work has pulled me in even closer to why I do what I do and how I want to connect others to it.
For those of you who only follow me here to read my blog, you might not have seen much of my work. For those of you who follow me on both of my accounts, you have seen first hand the images I create. Through my photography, it has become my goal and mission to connect my viewers on a deeper lever to the beauty of our world and the calmness that can lie within. I guess this is something I always knew, yet in search of that deeper connection to myself my mission is beginning to scream out even louder to me now. I find this world to be too busy, too loud, too rushed. Through the power of my images, I create the opposite.
It is a funny thing when you take the time to stop and think. To really think. To really let yourself feel. It may be uncomfortable for some and liberating for others. Sometimes you have to get passed that uncomfortable space to reach the other side where you feel liberated and inspired.
Picking a word that calls to you helps. At least I found it has helped me.
Yet I still feel I have a long way to go in many aspects of my life. In truth, I don't think anything is ever done because everything is forever changing. Picking a word you follow now might mean one thing where as that same word 5 years from now might mean something completely opposite. We are, the ones around us, as for the entire world and universe is in constant movement and is constantly changing. It would be horrible if the Universe or we weren't changing.
We need to change and learn and grow...that's what gives life it's meaning.
So remember to find your word. It doesn't matter if it's halfway though the year. Find your word and take it to heart, let it follow you like a shadow, you might be surprised how much your mindset can change by just one little word. It's worth a shot at least...nothing ventured is nothing gained.
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