GOING BACK IN TIME

Lately I’ve been going back in time more so than usual through old photos and footage, some of which I had almost forgotten about. The nostalgia of memories not yet lost that could be relived just by revisiting a single moment captured and somewhat frozen in time is second to none. It would appear I can’t seem to get enough of it. I can almost feel the sun on my skin as it did hit me when I was on the beach in Lisbon. Suddenly, a couple of years ago only feels like yesterday. I’m sure this is no revelation as we’ve all had several moments where a thought, an image or reality took us down memory lane. But I will be remiss if I say this time in particular it didn’t trigger other aspects that I have perhaps been neglecting, thus prompting a preemptive effort in bringing those aspects to light.

As much as I’ve taken stock of the wonderful happenings that have come about in my life, the truth is when I find myself in a rut, I sometimes forget how I was able to overcome it all and thrive. Sometimes being in a low state makes it hard to see what could be. We find ourselves consumed in our pain and emotions. The latter I’ve gotten a new perspective on, to mean energy in motion. And no matter how everyone else around us tells us everything will be fine, somehow it’s not enough. In the end, we find that in most instances, we are truly the only ones who can get ourselves out of that state by going through the motions until we no longer want it to become our new normal.

For me the cycle is all too familiar. But the way I get out of a rut remains constant. By remembering the other times I thought I couldn’t, but yet managed to. My mind uses my past experiences of success to show it is indeed possible to overcome it . Albeit different factors, the main actor remains the same; me.

Consciously preempting this logic has become a game changer in my thought process. I’m going back in time and taking stock of all the near impossible miracles that have happened in my life with the sole intention of using it as proof of what could be. Armed with this knowledge, it’s hard not to see the brighter side of life even when things get rough.

In the end, these experiences appear to be a character building exercise. Ones that tend to mould me into the person I need to be to survive the next hurdle. I welcome them for I know I’ll only come out stronger on the other end just like I always have.

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