D80: What Direction Are You Going?

tasra365-directionDo you see what I saw in these shoes? I know they’re the same ones I photographed yesterday but when I stumbled across them in the middle of the floor, I stopped. Then I noticed something. Do you see it?

The title may have given it away, but they are headed in opposite directions. In fact, I found them lying on the floor just as they are photographed here. I thought it was an apt representation of how I’ve been feeling, a sense of being pulled in two different directions. And if I’m not mistaken, I know that many 365-ers and other people in general are feeling the same way.

There is a sense of purpose and meaning in one direction, a dream, a hope, a North Star. Everything in our core wants to head in that direction.

But the other direction continues to pull us—the direction of safety, security, practicality. Call it what you will, but the pull from that force of reality is strong.

What I’m finding is that if we can get enough momentum, motivation, determination, discipline and company for the journey ahead, we can begin to turn that other foot around and start moving in the direction of our dreams. Would you agree? Where are you on the path?

Manual: Page 75—Image Rotation. Auto image rotation once downloaded only works in automatic according to my manual.

Images: A few more StumbleUpon favorite photography sites today: Exactitudes, James Natchwey, Antilimit

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Filed under Month 3: Nov '09, tasra365 · Tagged with , , , , , Posted by Tasra Dawson on Thursday, November 19, 2009 · Comments 

  • dijea
    Yes, what I want to do and what comes out of the camera are often two different things. I'm hoping it will all come together in the end.
  • Excellent post Tasra, I feel the "push-me-pull-me" daily, family responsibilities, versus the need to see, and experience and create rarely leave me feeling centered and moving towards my dreams. Maybe I allow my dreams to be put on hold too easily? But when I push for them, I feel like I'm risking the security of family. It's hard. But God gives us a gift with each new day...
  • I definitely experience that sometimes. It's like a boxing match: camera 5, Tasra 0. Then other days I feel like I've nailed it, it's a knockout. I like those days!
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