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Fear of failure

This photo is dedicated to a true friend of mine.

 

"For me, this photo is a very personal thing, as i've been thinking a lot about lately how soceity and the surroundings can make you feel lonely. Now, it's not soceity that actually creates the feeling, it's yourself. As being different from your surroundings, can tend to have that effect on you. You feel different, and lonely, afraid of not doing what everyone else expects you to do. I had been dealing with that feeling for a while, but around a week ago I thought ''fuck it''. Now I know it sounds cliche, but you have to be true to yourself, be who you want to be and not who everyone else want you to be. By living your life from the heart, you will have no regrets, yet living in fear, will make you a robot. Just like all the other robot people. As the quote says '' They made fools out of the best of us, and robots out of the rest of us.

 

- Once I got this out of my mind, I though of expressing it in a photo, and I know no one else with the talent, and drive as Lloyd! So, I explained him this idea and here is the final product. - I don't think that we could have expressed this feeling in a better way.

Be who you wanna be. There is just no excuse.''

 

- Mathis Meilby, 2013

 

Thank you so much for all the attention i've received lately! All those amazing words and kind things you say means a lot to me! Thank you!

 

This is my second successful image for 2013. Mathis (which is the character in this photo) and I went for a shoot this weekend. Our idea was to show a person who was lonely and scared of failing.

It was freaking cold, at the beach, even dough I was wearing cloth - so thanks Mathis for being so brave to take off almost every piece of your cloth and jump into the 1 celsius degrees water. People around us couldn't understand what the heck we were doing...

 

As failure and adversity the wave is impossible to avoid and this symbolizes, that you have to push yourself and keep on going cause "there is no succes like failure" cause it makes us stronger.

 

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Uploaded on February 4, 2013
Taken on February 4, 2013