Stop and Smell the Roses

Wow, the first month of 2023 has already flown by and I feel like I’m just waking up to the new year! With this time of the year always feeling like the time to “start something new”, it can seem stressful as we start and possibly stop that something. Yesterday realizing that the month was wrapping up, I got a little nostalgic and went over some old photos. Kind of like a walk down memory lane.

Back in 2019 I decided to do a 365 day selfie photo project. The hope of it then was to put in the time and practice needed to perfect my craft. Thinking about the day to day moments, I can’t remember a time throughout that process where I felt that “leveled up” feeling. Much like one would get in a video game. I thought, maybe I could mix some outtake images with what was used to create a video of the progression. I must say, watching the images fly by and seeing some of the incremental images taken to get to “that one shot” was fun. Check it out here:

Watching this reminded me that progress towards any goal takes work. We will have to experiment and fail along the way in order to get to the next step. Sometimes we reach the next step only to fall back down a few. Regardless of the back and forth though, it’s a journey and we have to remember it’s our own journey. Comparing ourselves to others doesn’t help level us up any faster. In fact it may make us go crazy LOL. Seeing one’s own progress from a day-to-day perspective, it may seem non-existent. Pulling back the view though from a longer lens, might just show that a lot of progress had been made and at that point, we should celebrate our personal growth!