Prioritising “Me” time
Sometimes every little thing obtains overwhelming in a fast-paced world. The uniformity of job and life can get to every person eventually or the other. When this occurs, self-care as a method comes to be so essential. For me self-care is my practice of photography. It is nurturing, innovative and provides me so much delight. Most importantly, it takes my mind off problems.
I assume self-care is not an indulgence, it is a necessary element of our life. When we spend time doing what we enjoy, we bring back and renew our internal beings. Photography for example can bring anybody into the here and now minute. Personally, it assists me stagnation in order to observe various other aspects of life.
Self-care might suggest different things to different people. For some it could suggest resting, for others it might mean a getaway. For me it is a day-to-day ritual of taking photos. Photography has the capability to revitalise me in lovely ways.What’s interesting about photography is that it instructs us to observe deeply.
Sometimes, we see imperfections around us. For example, a fractured wall or a decayed dropped leaf. This act of monitoring draws our focus to the fact that life is not excellent which we need to learn to deal with the flaws. One needs to approve life and the continuous changes that take place around us. As an example, through photography we see just how the periods in a year modification. This change in nature itself is an attractive lesson of life.
Photographing scenes similar to this brings us closer to what it means to stay in this world. Extremely frequently we tend to see the cracked wall surface, but fail to remember to see the light that drops on the split wall at different times of the day.
The act of framing with my cam lens premises me in various means. Often times, the shots I take matter much less than the pause I take from my routine to picture. The “pause” is my act of self-care. When I take it deliberately, it’s like I am saying to myself and the people around me that this is important to me.
I am a media specialist and digital photographer based in Hyderabad, in South India. My job rests quietly at the junction of routine and reflection, where a passing glimpse, a shadow on a wall surface, or a tangle of cables might end up being a picture. Below is the web link to my digital photography website.