“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” Charles Bukowski
Self-Reflection
Photography OCD
A somewhat healthy obsession with photography
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” Charles Bukowski
Photography OCD 
I’m trying to remember, it is a long road down to memory lane. Such a beautiful picture. I need to look up other words for ‘beautiful’ to comment on your posts 🙂
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Thanks Kacha, I was just about to change it.
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Next time I’ll wait a bit before commenting 🙂 Although I’m a strong believer in the ‘first feeling’, that is mostly the right one.
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The second edit was not better, I’m going to leave it as a commitment to letting go of perfectionism. 🙂
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Good question…pondering….(insert image of downloading spiral).
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I not only don’t remember who I was I forgot why I was standing in the rain taking this photo.
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Hahahaha….but aren’t you glad you did?!
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Actually I am, whether its good on not the fact that I went out in the rain and tried is an achievement.
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I’d say. Snow squalls here. I stayed safe inside. wimp.
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If I wake up to snow squalls I’ll be out in a New York minute.
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Lol.
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I don’t think it’s possible to be out of influence of the world. But it’s possible to feel that others (and their expectations) and you are not the same. It can make the influence feebler.
I like your reflection!
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Thanks Alena, and that is why I wanted to live in a cave. For some reason though my parents made me go to school.
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Parents are influence too.
I suppose cave is too cold and uncomfortable, not like a bed 😉
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Its too late now anyway but I think I could have made it work.
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Never too late until the death comes!
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You’re right Mrs. Shminke, its never too late. But now that I’m older and possibly wiser I realize that I’m not really a cave person anymore.
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I don’t offer you to live in a cave 🙂 Still I believe that life can become easier and happier for you.
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First of all its been said that life is suffering. Its also been said that despite complaining about it people like to suffer. And suffering can be a great motivator for change. Put a fork in me I’m done! (Вставь вилку в меня, я сделал!)
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Well, if you enjoy your sufferings I can leave you with them. If no I will continue to write you dozens of letters unless you say stop it.
The translation shouldn’t be literal, I googled and got it!
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I not only enjoy my sufferings but I’m a card carrying masochist. Stop it.
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You actually first found me and began to write me, so, apparently, you have to endure me as well.
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Since you’re getting me a motorcycle for Christmas I better be good for goodness sake!
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Another great Bukowski quote!
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He was a wise man for a drunk and self proclaimed bum. One of my favorite authors.
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I like that quote 😀
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Its a hard question to answer isn’t it?
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I can’t. But I’m starting to discover that person now. Beautiful composition … very nicely balanced.
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Thanks Larry but I always had the impression that you were Mister Zen. Did it really take you your whole life to discover who you are? Anyway, I wonder if the quote more than the image resonates with people, I came very close to deleting it and I’m still not sure I like it. But as I said I’m going to leave it as a commitment to letting go of perfectionism.
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So true.. Living in the shadows of others.. ;-(
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Yep.
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