aftermath of letting go

I was walking last night and all around me, i kept seeing signs of it.

People together, couples holding hands, embraces, arms around shoulders, knowing smiles, heart at home.

Love. I don't really like writing about it, but here it is. It presented itself to me last night so clearly that there is just no way around it, no way to follow my own rules of not writing about it, thinking about it, dwelling on it, because after all, what is it but air, wind, god. things we cannot see, we can only fathom.

The way it was evident last night makes you wonder. It's here, it's true people feel it have it know it taste it keep it. Then why do so many feel so lost and so...wanting. If it were so easy to have, to realize, to know, why is it so difficult to believe?

Some people fall in love, at first sight, they say. Some after, some see it right off - that possibility, others not so quick, they can't see what's right in front of them or under their noses until it's gone, drifted away and owned by someone else.

MIllions of people. If you keep searching for the right one, that would mean you would search your entire life and beyond, without ever finding it. If you settle, is that bad? or is it actually realizing that your needs of love, CAN be met, if you yourself allow love to enter whole and untouched.
NOt edited like they do in movies. NOt cropped like they do with photos.
Whole.

Some wait for it, others think they're not ready and yet they entrap themselves in confusing complicated fucked up messes. But when they finally say they are, it becomes a bigger mess.

And for some, they just never find it. I feel the unravelling truth about where i fit. Does it scare me?

I was walking without actually knowing where to go.
I am writing this without actually knowing where I am headed.

Maybe that's it.
That's the point of it all.
There is none.
Damn.

I CAN SEE WITH ONE EYE CLOSED, MY RIGHT ARM OVER MY SHOULDERS, MY LEFT LEG LIFTED HIGH AND MY HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

A SPURT OF AN IDEA.
Ideas, opinions, views, beliefs.
Sometimes all of these is merely out of perspective. How we see one thing.
Perspective, in the English language, can be described in the context of vision and visual perception. It is simply the way in which our eye recognizes objects based on several factors.
IN the graphic arts, it is the representation on a surface of an image that is ‘seen’ by the eye.
And in the theory of cognition, perspective is a choice. Many scholars argue if it is the actual choice or the result of this choice that can be called perspective. In any case, it allows for a value and a belief system to influence how we view, analyze, and think about a certain topic, person or thing.
Here are some thoughts to ponder:

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. (Lord Barnett)
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. (Samuel Johnson)
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. (Al Neuharth)
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. (Abraham H. Maslow)
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. (M. Shawn Cole)
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)


Another way of looking at it is by “looking at it” (physically).



This most original idea by photographer Boris Kahl was realized by simply….looking at the sky, rather, where parts of it can be seen set against the many skyscrapers of the city.
He calls the project TYPE THE SKY, now published as a book, featuring all 26 letters from the alphabet, with the addition of the punctuations “?” and “!”.

So the next time you are affronted by a certain situation, it would help if you take a moment to ask yourself, “Is this the only of looking at it?”

Who knows, you just might realize the world wasn’t-square isn’t round after all.

FOR HE WHO COLLECTS NUMBERS

GEEK.NERD.DORK.GENIUS.LOONS.WEIRD.
If you happen to love numbers, or be a wiz at them, you are usually any one of these. (at least in the primary, middle and high-school mentalities)

I say otherwise.
Dorks can be the cutest people on earth.

(if you find any more cute cartoons like this, let me know.)

NOT love at first sight

There someone I'm in love with...Although I can't be with her now...I'm still in love with her...

I've always taken the gift of sight for granted. I would hurt my eye, not take care of it. I love reading until late night, and i love to do it in the most hurtful of conditions - while in motion, or with little light. NOw that my passion for photography has taken ahold of me, i can't imagine being without it, being lost and unable to appreciate the beauty - to view what is real and envision possibilities.






The words above were words narrated by the man in the the video. He is a photographer himself, and he chose to up this most precious gift for the girl that he loved and hurt. And love still. AT the end, the girl realizes that it was him who gave her back the ability to see, and it's heartbreaking to watch when she realizes the sacrifice he made for him.






Everyone of us makes that wish. To find someone that would love us. Few of us realize that this wish is most easily remedied not by a wish getting granted .... but by a choice being made.
My wish? To be strong enough to make that choice one day. To give my heart to someone and love that person so damn much that i would risk everything, be less, lose everything and yet, be better , be whole for it.




The song is by KISS ( Jini, MIni and Umji) , one of Korean's instant hits, but which disbanded after their one and only album. Would you believe that this clip is so popular that many versions of the song were made, and in many languages - english, french, mandarin, cantonese, even tagalog! The two actors in the video are Shin Hyun Joon and Goo Hye JIn. Both gorgeous!

a sad love song /choeun