Wow! Its been a really really long time since I wrote something. I think I was so caught up in the rat race that I just didn't have the time or the energy to flex my creative muscles and do what was once my my most favorite thing to do. Write.
Writing, travelling and photography are three of my most favorite things to do. I remember when I was back in mangalore many years ago, I always took the time out to go on little photo walks around where I lived and I always ended up getting at least one keeper. I somehow managed to find beauty in very small things.
Here is an example of one such photo I clicked. These birds were just outside my flat, they looked like they were in deep conversation and the way it came out was way beyond my expectations. Well, I have to give mangalore the credit as well because it was so small and beautiful and almost every turn had something really photogenic to click. All it needed was an eye for detail.
Here I am now, in Hyderabad, the "Big City" and I hardly have time and more importantly a good place where I can go and click anything. The city is so fast paced and hectic that one hardly finds anything clean or even remotely photogenic to click. I recently went on a photo drive and all I could get were a few light
streaks. I liked how the photo turned out, but its very common and not something that I wanted to click. That was already a few months ago and I miss doing that on a regular basis. Added to that, I've had to work on weekends as well and that made it even more difficult to go out clicking.
Oddly enough all this came as a blessing in disguise. The last few months have been so hectic that I've had to watch vlogs and other YouTube videos to calm my nerves. I've sort of taken a liking towards vlogging and I hope some day I will be able to create my own video content, but until then I've decided that each and every single day, I will write something. Something about how my day went, my opinions about things I read, my experiences and I hope to bring back the creative side of me. I've also learnt in recent times that the only way one can get better at something is by practicing what we want to do every single day of our lives and my greatest inspiration in perusing that is my Mother.
I've never seen anyone who possessed such grit and determination. I am a little embarrassed to say this but my mom has never been good at fine arts but that never deterred her from trying a hand at it. She is always trying to do something new and creative. The downside though for the OCD me is that she usually stops mid way and I have to clear the mess but she just never gives up. She tried her hand at bonsai making, sewing, driving, playing the piano, learning Chinese and Spanish for sometime and finally she seems to have hit the jackpot with painting. She practices painting every single day and now she has become so good at it that we ourselves wonder if this was really painted by my Mom. They are proper wallpaper material and some of her colleagues have her paintings hug on walls.
Anyways, fact of the matter is that, I have decided that from this day forth, I am going to hone my creative side, writing and photography being the two major things that Im gonna work on. Lets see how this goes.
