Pulling it right back up

A Difference, indeed.

I woke up with a heavy heart today. Mainly due to the fact that the pass two days of my life were spent entirely devoted to developing into "a more effective leader" through the means of a school camp or it might be due to the fact that during my long and thorough sleep, I saw things that, lets just say, I wouldn't want to see happening.

The weather didn't help much either.

This feeling is interesting for I haven't felt it in a long time. A thought so strong and prospective that it actually made me think about things in a more analytical, and practical fashion.

The past two days spent at the school camp weren't exactly ideal or that much enjoyable, well to me at least; I found multiple aspects of the camp to be largely redundant and freedom was kept to a minimum (as with most other camps).

We're at that age where our minds reign and crave freedom, where rules stand for nothing and where we like to express ourselves and our thoughts to the world.

I acknowledge that fact as I feel that transition as well, essentially, we hate to be controlled.

But the lack of control often breeds the lack of order, which in turn leads to being reckless and doing things that one would regret ultimately.

Just like Light streaks, the mind is often limitless and unexpected.

That fine line has to be drawn between crossing and staying within the boundary.

Well, that's that I presume.

As seen evidently on metallic-stains, I've been on hiatus for the past couple of weeks, largely due to the various R&R activities planned.

Interestingly, these few weeks of hiatus has somehow or another, changed me in a way quite very unexplainable. It made me see things in a new light, as well as feel differently about things and occurrences around me.

Many things in life change as that is the the focal point of improvement but these few weeks have made me realized that some things are and should be kept constant not matter what radical changes take place. Think about it.

You might have also noted that though I've been on hiatus posting here on metallic-stains, Audrey has been hard at work taking interesting shots of things over the weeks.

Click on the link to your right to excess to the flickr page if you're interested to see her work.

Also, this is a good time to post a shout out to those of you out there who use Twitter. Be sure to "follow me" and my tweets via the link by the right.

Alright, that's all for this short update here on metallic-stains. Be sure to check back soon. The hiatus is over. More stuff soon to come.

Be back, soon.

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Photographs, Pasta and Pressure

Passion.

Sometimes during the course of life, we engage in self conversation. While some assume the effectiveness of verbal self conversation, others prefer to let the pen, do the talking.

Self conversations are interesting for they are dialogues from within, with your inner self.

“Where should I go for dinner?” “I feel like having pasta today.” “Today’s a good day.”

Dialogues are interesting due to its priority as a mode of communication and when this mode of communication happens between yourself, we often term this behaviour “reflection” or “reflecting”, so to speak.

Unknowingly, we engage in reflections and self conversation more often than we know in our day to day activities, which is a vital process, in my opinion.

Our world is subjected to numerous influences and forces. Forces that tells us right from wrong, good from bad and other contrasting opposites of the spectrum.

I feel that self conversation is a check and an assurance. It is the regulatory force behind our wellbeing, the one which really tells us right from wrong, positives to negatives.

There are many ways of interpreting right or wrong in this world; what’s right to you may or may not be right to another, and vice versa. And thus, this is where this self check comes into play.

Recently I stumbled upon a social networking site, also known as Twitter.

Apparently, it’s popular in the states and is a fast growing trend. It works on the fundamental question,

“What are you doing now?”

Since the dawn of time (seemingly), people have been asking other people that question.

And this is interesting because on twitter, people not only say what they’re doing, but also what they’re feeling.

I found twitter interesting (thus explaining the little widget to the right, feel free to click and follow me), and rather surprising on multiple levels. Largely because I was taken aback by the frankness and the willingness to express that self conversation within oneself, with the world through such a medium.

Indeed the world is changing and people are becoming more and more open. A question like “what are you doing now?” is no longer a sacred, personal inquiry but takes its place as a conversational topic.

We find ourselves more and more willing to express our thoughts, feelings and opinion and we venture out of our safety zones. With the emergence of blogs, twitter and technological advances, the process of self conversation takes on a different dimension.

New platforms are springing up and people are now, able to express themselves with a variety of ways and mediums.

However, I feel that the fundamental process is always the most intensive and important, to say the least. Whatever we converse with our inner self, a degree of rawness is engaged amongst ourselves and it is this unique interaction that for me, keeps things in check and sane.

Oh well, that’s that.

Only today, an idea came to me. It was a simple yet interesting idea but also, very time consuming.

An idea.

The idea is Flickr based, which means that it is mainly, if not entirely, graphical.

The concept? Simple.

Everyday, for 365 days a year, I will have to take a picture representing my mood, emotions or thoughts for that particular day. It can be anything, still life, weather, people, structures etc. So as long as the mood and emotion for that particular day is represented, the picture would have achieved that purpose.

So what do you guys think?

I’m not too sure if there already is such a thing going on in Flickr (but I do know of other concepts revolving around “taking a picture a day”) and I’ll need feedback and comments about the concept, before I decide to go with or scrape the idea.

It would look really good and interesting at the end of the 365 days, I guess.

And that’s about it for this update I guess. Check back soon for even more good stuff to follow.

Time to re-hit the books (yes, its time).

Stand strong, in the meantime.

*metallic-stains and its owner is in no way affiliated to twitter and flickr in anyway other being a user. All concepts and pictures used in the post belongs to the owner of metallic-stains and usage or adaptation without permission is not advised. In fact, you'd be better off not stealing. Just saying.

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