It’s often not about how heavy the weight is as how we carry the weight.
Finding another shoulder and just another plank to distribute the weight works wonders.
So, this week, who are you lending a shoulder to? It could make a telling difference. Who knows whats weighing someone down.
(at Juhu Beach)
Our differences come up because the frames we wear are different. We look at the same object and think different things. How we perceive the world affects the world.
And as the world hurtles from problem to problem, we ought to see this. Perhaps take the trouble to see this.
In moments when hatred abounds our minds, perhaps its worth our time to pause and ponder ‘whats causing me to think about this way’. And asking that question in itself can solve many problems. Problems that existed because of our frames.
(at Qutb Minar)
Do you just take off and land or do you really fly?
Do you just see flowers by the road or have you noticed them in full bloom?
Do you notice the things that you notice and the things that you don’t?
Do you see that they are not about the things themselves, but about the thing inside you. Called life.
You don’t go forward looking only at the rear view mirror. But the rear view mirror sometimes can show you pieces that make you, you.
This random pink bicycle on the rear view mirror of my parked car lead me to a zillion memories.
Of friends. Family. Childhood. Relationships. Life in itself. Memories of the roads we have taken to get to where we are put energy in our feet and add new meaning to a mundane day.
(at Nariman Point Marine Drive)
What do you keep in the background? What do you focus on? These are important lessons for a photographer.
Ages ago, as I fiddled with my first camera I got talking to someone to whom the camera was but an extension of his arm.
He said, I remember clearly, ‘a good photographer learns what to include in the frame. You get better by learning to keep out EVERYTHING that doesn’t add to the picture’
That lesson, I have learnt. applies to business. And to life as well.
(at Isle of Wight)
This man sat painting red stripes on a nondescript side step of a giant temple. His diligence enveloped the air around him.
Much of our work is like that. We are not always working on an orbit altering project or seeking to put a dent on the universe.
We must remember that the trick is not in ‘What’ we are working on, but rather ‘how’ we work on whatever we are working on.
Actually, its not a trick.
(at Madurai Meenakshi Temple)
To watch a lotus leaf on water is a treat. For any droplet of water on it, becomes a pearl. The droplet floats on the leaf and runs around like a kid in a toy shop.
In what they offer, the leaf and the droplet teach a lesson or two. To be unaffected and yet remaining so close is one amongst them.
Quick, what do you see?
(at Mumbai, India)
