Striving Amateurs
View allAll Photos Tagged Strive
We all strive to be the best we can be, whether that be for family, work, friends etc. How often do we take the time to be the best we can be for ourselves? How often do we take the time to recognise how beautiful we are, as souls, as beings? How often do we tell ourselves that we are enough...just as we are? It has taken me 44 years to start asking myself this question.
Last night, my son, who has complex needs and disabilities, hugged me tightly and said "I love you mummy". Not because he was asked to, but because he wanted to. "You're the best mummy in the world".
After I held him tightly and told him how much I love him, he wriggled free and was lost in his spinning world again.
But to me, that was the world, that was everything. And I allowed myself to see, for the first time in 44 years, that despite everything, I must be the best for my son, does this mean I can also be the best for me?
Epiphanies are best shared with people you truly admire and respect, which is why I'm sharing this 💜
Welcome to Poppyday.
Most people, at least most of those I know, strive for a high degree of order, structure and predictability in their lives. But maintaining this state required an incredible amount of energy. Because basically we are constantly fighting against a law of nature, which always strives in the direction of the greatest possible disorder (entropy). This force has basically created (or at least made possible) everything that exists in the universe over millions of years.
This disorder, which we also like to call chaos, causes so many random events and combinations that a constant development process can unfold. Any creative process requires a minimum of this chaos.
This is not to say, of course, that the order is fundamentally opposed. As with almost everything, it's all about finding the right balance.
This photo here, of a bird vetch (at least I think it is one) huddled in a beautifully textured field of barley and poppies, is meant to symbolize that. The order is gone. But do I still see the picture as interesting without those purple flowers?
With that in mind, I invite you to allow a healthy dose of chaos into your life this week. Everyone decides for themselves what level is healthy. But I can assure you that you will notice this quite quickly once this point has been passed.
Die Schönheit des Chaos
Willkommen am Mo(h)ntag.
Die meisten Menschen, zumindest, die meisten die ich kenne, streben in Ihrem Leben nach einem hohen Mass an Ordnung, Struktur und Planbarkeit. Doch diesen Zustand aufrecht zu erhalten erfordert unfassbar viel Energie. Denn im Grunde kämpfen wir dabei ununterbrochen gegen ein Gesetz der Natur, welche stets in Richtung der größt möglichen Unordnung (Entropie) strebt. Diese Kraft hat über millionen von Jahren im Grund alles erschaffen (oder dies zumindest ermöglicht) was im Universum existiert.
Diese Unordnung, die wir auch gern als Chaos bezeichnen, verursacht so unfassbar viele zufällige Ereignisse und Kombinationen, dass sich daraus ein steter Entwicklungsprozess entfalten kann. Jeder kreative Prozeß bedarf eines Mindestmasses an diesem Chaos.
Das soll natürlich nicht heißen, dass Ordnung grundlegend abzulehnen ist. Auch hier kommt es, wie bei fast allem, auf die richtige Balance an.
Dieses Foto hier, in dem sich eine Vogel-Wicke (glaub ich zumindest) in ein wundervoll strukturiertes Gersten- und Mohnfeld gedrängt hat, soll dies symbolisieren. Schon ist die Ordnung dahin. Doch sehe das Bild ohne diese lila Blüten noch genau so interessant aus ?
In diesem Sinne lade ich Euch ein, in dieser Woche ein gesundes Mass an Chaos in Eurem Leben zuzulassen. Welches Mass das Gesunde ist entscheidet dabei jeder für sich. Doch ich kann Euch versichern, Ihr werdet das recht schnell merken, wenn dieser Punkt überschritten ist.
more of this on my website at: httpo://www.shoot-to-catch.ded
🌿
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world"
Desiderata
Max Ehrman
ערב ראש השנה תשע"ז
שנה טובה!
When our leaders understand that no weapon or ammunition is conducive to dialogue for peace and stop manufacturing and buying them, then peace will be reborn for the good and happiness of humanity.... → Unfortunately this is an utopia, but I say it anyway !
"This world is a cage of fools where war, peace, love, hate, anger, jubilation, boredom, pleasure, martyrdom follow one another in turn and play on us".
When, in loopy lupin land, all around him the masses have lost their heads, this tired, storm ridden maverick lupin stands alone, relentlessly pushing towards the light.....
In our garden
The Men Jail Event [February 8th]
*Coming Soon*
◎ Staying About by Poseology Poses
◎ Cushion Socks Essentials by NOCHE
◎ Loyalty Tattoo by >MM<
◎ Togym Bento Gloves by [LOB]
◎ Sweater Pants by DossiEr
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Melody Beattie
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
“Everyone strives after the law,” says the man, “so how is that in these many years no one except me has requested entry?” The gatekeeper sees that the man is already dying and, in order to reach his diminishing sense of hearing, he shouts at him, “Here no one else can gain entry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I’m going now to close it.”
—Franz Kafka, “Before the Law”
Hanksville, Utah
20-10-2022; 01:00 UTC 325;37;4
The Alban Tower and the bell tower of Katedralja Orthodhokse 'Ngjallja e Krishtit' in the city center of Tirana, Albanien.
A book I recently read talks about the benefits of keeping a gratitude journal, especially for those who suffer from anxiety. My entry for today is gratitude for the lovely Flickr family that take the time to look at my images, leave incredible comments and share parts of themselves in response to my musings.
I admit that when I write posts like that one, I often feel sick that I have over-shared, been indulgent and that people might roll their eyes. But, I think all the response give me the feeling that this is not the case.
I was humbled by the heartfelt response to my post on Beauty in Decay and ageing. And especially graceful to those who talked about the impact of having lost parents, both when they were young and more recently. It is a privilege to hear your stories and that we are united by the universal loss we all feel and to hear about the strength and different way people face the challenges of ageing.
Photography has bought me so much joy and I think it is not an exaggeration to say it has changed and enriched my life. I think if I didn’t have Flickr and the Flickr community to share with, learn from and be inspired by, I wouldn’t strive as much as I do to make better images.
You are an amazing group of people. Some of you I get to hang out with in person but I am also happy that I can hang out with the rest of you on Flickr.
So thank you, thank you thank you.
Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
La felicità sta nell’assenza della lotta per la felicità.
Chang-Tzu
Shirt: [ ERAUQS ] - Will Shirt w/ Tank Top
Skin; leLAPEAU - Evo X - Noel Skin
Head: LeLUTKA Eon Head 3.1
Necklace: ROZOREGALIA_hi/low*NECKLACE(Propose)
Hair: Vango. Rick
Pose/furniture: Cheeky Pea, Ethereal hanging bed and Ethereal Arbour (Kustom 9)
Hair: Truth, Candy - variety
Mesh Head: S@R, Hybrid Avatar Head - Nea Milky-White
Head Band: +half-deer+, Forest's Tale Flower Crown
Body: Belleza, Venus - V3
Bracelets: .tsg. Candy (group gift)/ +half-deer+, Forest's Tale - Petals and pearls bracelet
Dress: Moon Amore, Selene Dress - Pink
I have. been looking for ideas and read the following article that I have based this work upon:
The Mystery of Life
Muhammad Taqi Ja'fari
Positive Mysticism
www.al-islam.org/mystery-life-muhammad-taqi-jafari/positi...
I hope that my work makes sense to you!
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
All life, as if an endless moment...
Seasons change after season.
This whole wonderful world was in white,
Then suddenly it becomes green again...
Where is the line, the one beyond which this life is?
Where is sensuality, and where is rationality?
Where is what we call MIRAGES,
And where is the inexorable reality?
And the world - it is as if woven from problems,
The mysteries in it are sometimes inexplicable,
But we live in it for some reason, why?
Everything in this world is so inexplicable...
We want it to be simple, why?
To understand everything that we do not understand?
So that no one understands
Everything that we feel and everything that we know?
What are we striving for, what do we want to understand?
First we create, and then we destroy again,
We are so used to losing so much,
That our souls become hardened from losses.
We are used to life, and it is only a moment!
I just started living, and life is already coming to an end,
And this world remains a fairy tale
A mystery, once unsolved...
The most accomplished street artist in Launceston is Kreamart. His identity is unknown (a local version of Banksy), but looking at this work he could well be a professional signwriter.
The message is one we should all take to heart whatever we do.
Mitt bidrag till Fotosöndag och veckans tema «vårkänslor».
My contribution for this week's theme «spring feelings»; for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.
If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?
[Ashly Lorenzana]