There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret.
We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty.
We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know – unless it be to share our laughter.
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love. For wanderers, dreamers & lovers, for lonely men & women who dare ask of life everything good & beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.”- James Kavanaugh
In my search for self, for finding my nitch, I have discovered many things. I discovered that although I still have yet to learn the meaning of relax, I find peace in my surroundings more often that I ever realized especially when I am behind a camera. There is so much beauty that I often overlooked. As far as sitting still or doing something for mi, I manage to treat myself to a pedicure or a massage every so often. But the greatest joy I have come to embrace in these searching years is the responses, the looks, the gratitude I given from a client that I have been able to transform from pitiful to beautiful, from confused to confident, from uninspired to unstoppable. To know that I have boosted confidence, saved marriages, motivated struggling dieters and such is truly what drives mi.
It is in that search that I have found my own peace, my own sense of self and my own happiness. I challenge you to take a moment, search for yourself. Finish the sentence on the space below:
I am…