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Projection

A few days ago, Black Tomato had this interesting weekly competition and I got inspired with it and made this wallpaper of the thoughts I want to project out to the world. I think if each of us got around to fill in the blank canvas with thoughts and emotions, then stick it anywhere we always spend most time looking; we’d all be more positive and happy.

It’s just a theory but I really do think it would work because we will be able to to see our own state of mind laid out in front of us rather. That’s when you get to analyse yourself, see yourself for what you are than *think* about what you may be. You can’t disregard it, nor make excuses and delete it because it’s right there..in front of you.

Each and every word in that canvas are linked to each other one way or another. And a lot of them would not have been the case if it weren’t for traveling. It made me grow a lot in terms of being more humble and laid back. We know all things don’t happen the way we want it to be but if you go along with the journey to getting there, you’d learn a lot more when arriving at the destination.

The journey not the arrival matters. – T. S. Eliot

So I can’t imagine what it’d be like not to travel at all. Not able to see, smell, touch, talk and love while traveling would be absurd to me. Then again, even those who travel and not able to experience those little things are just as pointless as each place we go (even the places we already know) is capable to teach us something we can apply to ourselves.

🙂 If you think you have not enough money to travel, I’d say bogus! Travel is just a state of mind – even the city you live in has a lot of hidden secrets you don’t know about. Go, discover your roots and have lots of fun while you’re at it.

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A Candid Sensation

 

Seven days of summer in Haarlem was meant to be the perfect escapism away from the overwhelming reality; instead it brought me closer to reality. Oh the irony! When I was caught red handed for secretly taking photo of this charming family in Grote Markt, I swear I was in big trouble. 

So, I had the goofiest smile on my face, praying silently to Him I won’t get sued for invading someone’s privacy and unbeknownst to me, their mother welcomed me with opened arms, even consented my side activity to take their photos. I’m so thankful He had blessed me by capturing this portrait, aptly titled “A Candid Sensation”. She taught me many things in a span of minutes when she allowed me into her wonderful world. Reality is what we make it to be, good or bad. We have the choices in our hands, what comes out of it is beyond our control. 

With that in mind, we are capable of making life (and memories) as beautiful and crazy as we want it to be. So, to know that she invited a stranger like me into their circle without preconceived judgment enlightened me even more. If she can accept me for who I am, I should be able to do the same for others and myself. We don’t have to conform to others way of life in order to blend in. 


After all, where is the fun when everyone looks or acts the same?


* This post has been entered into the Grantourismo and HomeAway Holiday-Rentals travel blogging competition


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