Do you ever have moments when you wonder what your life would be like if just one thing did or did not happen? After winning my award this week, I was thinking about the people who helped me as I travel along this path of photography. Then I stated thinking about how I met them, and my mind just started to go back to try to figure out all those connections! Crazy, I know.So, I got a long way back!! There have been many people who have been inspirational and instrumental in this regard. I changed high schools after grade 11 because I didn’t think I was learning anything (again crazy!). The school I moved to was part of a University, so I got to really like that U and enrolled there for post secondary. It had a camera club and darkroom…I met supportive and creative friends, many of whom moved in art circles, which got me reinvigorated about artistic endeavors – if only as a hobby back then. …Some of the relationships endured, some not so much. Some still exist in ephemeral ways.
As the road not taken….But then again whose to say what might have been? But I still wonder from time to time. How ’bout you? Do you ever think about your chosen path or perhaps it was an accidental one, and wonder, “what if” or maybe “if only?”
Things could be better, or worse LOL. We are here today where we are and regardless the world just IS. I know I have many people to thank.