I believe life is all about experiences and only having what’s most meaningful to you, and what could be more precious to have in the material world than beautiful things that represent those moments?
I want to have stuff that remind me of the moments that mean the world to me because they’re filled with intention and emotion. My mind remembers scenes, and I often can go back to one particular moment when my mom grabbed my hand, she looked at it then she looked into my eyes, and told me how much I mean. There was nothing else in that moment. It was a slow, insignificant moment, but to me it was beautiful and pure. Nothing beats those moments. Nothing.
I want to have the photographs that take me back to all the moments that seemed so little back when they were happening, but ended up being a tattoo on my heart.
I have a photo of Luna, she passed away a couple of years ago. The photo is of a moment when she didn’t care what I have just told her, and insisted on going back to her bed and laying down, even when it was upside down. She then stared at me. I muted, and I can still re-play that moment in my head all the time. That was who she was, a sassy little schnauzer with the biggest personality a dog her size could have.
In her photo you can see her small, perfect egg-like head that I used to go crazy for, and if I breathe in more into that moment I can even smell her. I have that picture in my bedroom and I wake up to it every day, just like I used to wake up to her next to me in her tiny bed when she was still alive.
If you come to my place, you will find my favorite antique camera displayed on top of my bookshelf. It was a gift from my dad and he bought it for me in Mexico. Every time I look at it, I smiled and feel the appreciation I have for it. My favorite and most meaningful photos decorating the blank walls, and my plants displayed like jewels creating a cozy and more colorful space to all my books.
Beauty is necessary and needed, so display what you love the most.
Nata Writes | Visual Storyteller 