While I was out for my photo walk this afternoon I came across this stunning rock. I tried getting a good clear shot of it but there was so much beautiful clutter all around it, I couldn't stay focused on the rock. I tried a different perspective. I figured if we had to look at the rock through the clutter of beauty we would be forced to focus on the rock in order to see its true strength. Sometimes in life the same principle applies. Through the media we are flooded with images of beauty, fitness, and money, and we are tempted to think that we must be doing something wrong if we do not have all the wonderful things that we see. We must have been dealt a bad hand. We are lacking. I wish I was smarter, I wish I was prettier or built different. We need to change our focus, and we need to force ourselves to look beyond the beauty of these things that tend to take the focus off of who we truly are. We need to look at our lives from a different perspective. We have exactly what we need to be our own success story. We are important just the way we are, no matter how much beauty there is around us. We are beautiful just the way we are, and no one can take that away. This is the time many young people are graduating from high school and college, and they are getting ready to enter the real world. It can be a scary reality. There are many opportunities are out there, and the possibilities are endless. Go out and color your world.
I'm not sure which one I like more, the shot or the blurb. So I'll call it a tie. Very nice on both! Congratulations on your positive outlook, I'm sure many are jealous, but don't even realize it.
Wow, Rick!! This *should* make the PP. This is rock-solid wisdom and a wonderful capture! I hope there are some young people who will be able to gain the benefit of *your* wisdom without experiencing some of the hard lessons on their own...
Excellent words Rick. The colors are so brilliant! It's interesting how we can get focused on one thing but as we try to make it the center of the picture something else can emerge that's even more stunning. Your words on life are just like that. Good thougths- great picture!
What a wonderful piece Rick!
I needed to read those words today - thank you!
Please keep writing - I look forward to it.
It is wonderful that you can enrich someone's life across the world with your words :)
Your photo is lovely.
Thank you Rick for sharing this beautiful photo but even more so your message....I think we all need to focus more on our strengths rather than concentrating on our weaknesses!
I am sorry I have not commented on your photos in a while, but I will catch up.
wow, it is so interesting, your post is just I was talking this weekend on my way back from LI. I mentioned other day with Nikki about television and how I used to suffer looking at the ads and wanting things. Things that you don't really need it. That is way I don't watch television, I see some shows, but I record them to see when I feel like.
Your post comes to be so right.
Great words and wonderful capture of the color in front of this rock. Nicely done as always Rick. Sorry I am behind on my comments, but am catching up!
Amen Rick, and as I put it: bloom where you're planted, be what you are. I absolutely hate this American culture of too thin, too rich, too rude, too corse, and so on.
I needed to read those words today - thank you!
Please keep writing - I look forward to it.
It is wonderful that you can enrich someone's life across the world with your words :)
Your photo is lovely.
wow, it is so interesting, your post is just I was talking this weekend on my way back from LI. I mentioned other day with Nikki about television and how I used to suffer looking at the ads and wanting things. Things that you don't really need it. That is way I don't watch television, I see some shows, but I record them to see when I feel like.
Your post comes to be so right.
I love the colors in the plant.