Within and Without

It took me several sleepless nights and over-labored tear ducts just to stretch my throat into a black hole void enough to swallow my words, my ego, and my pride. They've grown the size of galaxies probably larger than the milky way.

Let us take some time to get out of ourselves for a while.

Let this be the time.

I've witnessed legion of ideas crumble, as well as grow with the flow of my state and my so-called 'maturity'. I can at least assure you that this will no longer be a selfie-turned-blog-as-excuse-for-more-selfies-so-worship-me kind of thing, nor will it be a condescending blog full of hate and self-proclaimed intellectual and existential dilemmas. Enough of this hate. This will not also be a portfolio of pretty things that I've made for an imaginary audience to applaud me and fuel my Rockstar dreams. Whatever that means.

I'd like to think I've outgrown those eyes I used to wear. I've decided to keep an older pair- a pair that may not look cool and are actually painful and uncomfortable, but which allow me to see clearer and observe better, thus serving its real purpose.

Let me share in this humble space the stories that I know to be true- or at least for the time the photographed and I shared our connected present through a click of a shutter.  

I may not have received formal training in photography and have yet a long way to go, but at least I've been taught well since I was a kid that whatever 'good' you have, no matter how great or small, you must share.

And now my real or imaginary reader, let me impart with you my firm belief that we are in this life to open up minds- ours and others’, raise questions, liberate the spirit, and continuously imagine and re-imagine ‘reality’ through elevated consciousness. This, I hope to achieve in my works.

And my works, I pray they live and breathe even outside of this virtual environment, and outside of me.

I don’t know that much about the world yet. I do not claim to be wise. 

I do not intend to become a spiritual leader of some sort. 

I do not live for profit nor praise.

All I want is to move and be moved.