A quote from the tv show How I Met Your Mother.
In many ways, HIMYM has changed my very existence. I usually prefer to stay at home and can play the introvert like very few can. But watching the assorted upper-twenty-something idiots on the show with their crazy theories, inside jokes and a general zest for life, it makes me wonder, why not me?
It is true that I prefer a good book and a movie to a wild night out; (someone’s got to) but I realized that there is plenty of time to read all the books that ought to be read and watch that which ought to be watched. What I may never get back is the next few years of my life. No commitments, no real responsiblities apart from those I owe to myself. This is the time to get out, travel, drink, eat, be merry… LIVE life. Which is why in a very unlike-me way I am off to Thailand for 5 days with my cuz Sameer for a getaway to debauchaery, memories and maybe even some crazy theories like the lemon rule.
The simplest things in life can tell you that things have changed. My hair for example… has always been kept short, crew cut style. However, I fear that the baldness that runs in my father’s side of the family might afflect me as well so I decided to enjoy my hair while it lasted. This led to growing it out to much chargin from familiy who liked things the way they were and were afraid of that other changes this might lead to.
I may be looking for change but I am not stupid. No piercings and no tatoos. If the recent economic meltdown has taught me anything, it is this… don’t save after spending but spend after saving. I believe I have a steady saving plan in place (touching some wood now) so I need to use the rest and travel, see the world and enjoy.
It comes down to the basic question: Do you want to be one of the many who appear in the background images of photographs, not knowing why they are there, spoiling a good picture and considered to be a mistake by people who make efforts to get rid of them? Or do you want to be the centre around whom the lights revolve? Or would you rather be the photographer, not in the flash but an integral part of the picture without whom no image would be possible?
For long I considered myself (and was happy) as an innocent bystander, caught on camera when all I wanted was to fade in the background… I have just started on the path to be a photographer. Time will only tell if I make it all the way to the screen behind the mirror.
You see, whenever I start feeling sick, I just stop being sick and be awesome instead.
- Barney Stinson
