Another post, that really touches me. On many levels... the first one, of course the picture. As usual, I studied it in full view and overall find it very calming. I like the kind of symmetry, with the figure just off the middle. A composition I like to use in my work as well. I notice your hair is shorter than a few days ago.
Next, the issue of second guessing and worrying... seem to have a certain problem there as well. I have enjoyed our past conversations very much. To the point, that I could get worried, how you might have perceived things. Or if I got carried away and made an idiot out of myself, or alienated @sean-king with something I did or said... things like that!
I think, when one has something beautiful, one is naturally afraid, that it could go away and of course one could get somehow... paranoid(?) that one could actually cause that by mistake. So, one gets worried and anxious. Its only natural, and the more sensitive you are, the more you have an antenna for everything that could be jeopardized.
A long time ago I was in a situation, where I was with a friend in Indianapolis and extremely nervous about something that was very important to me at the time. My friend was quite a bit older, funny and really smart. He felt sorry for me and said, worrying is most likely not going to help. He suggested, that if I thought it would, we should both lay down on the floor and roll around worrying and he'd support me in it for as long as I thought, it would take. Still laughing about it today and although it didn't solve my problem, it changed my attitude... at least a little :-)
So, even if it may sound silly and if I read into things... maybe its because seeing is my job (or the turpentine).. I see yet another "coincidence" in both our posts today, thinking of... "turned towards the light"...
The image is from our trip to Kauai 2 years ago...shorter hair for me then. :) it was a spectacular sunset that we enjoyed from a little deserted and secluded beach. That night the light and the mood were magical.
I guess many of us suffer needless worries. Your concerns here are unwarranted, but I know well those fears of offending a new friend, revealing too much, or just the eager angst of finding a friend who you like so much that attachment, and therefore fear of loss, creep into the situation. Sean nor I have ever been offended or offput by our conversations with you. I am so happy our paths crossed here and delight in the hope of continuing our comment chats!
If/when I go silent periodically on Steemit, or other social media, it's only that life gets busy, or as I say here that my own darkness has creeped in and I'm dealing with that. It's almost never that someone's comment or attention has offended me. Certainly not yours...you are full of praise and that's very mutual between us.
Btw "turning towards the light" is a much better title for this image vs "therapy". 👌🏼 i
Thank you so very much for your kind reply, so beautifully worded.
It is only natural, that one isn't online all the time and I understand quite well, when other things demand their attention or when one just isn't in the right frame of mind.
I'm usually offline when I travel and enjoy the "luxury" of being literally out of reach. Like a few days this week on a trip to Poland and a stop in Prague on the way back. Prague is only 130 miles away and to me one of the most beautiful and magical cities in the world... started to really miss our conversations though! 🤗
Prague is a special place. So much history beautifully preserved. We were lucky enough to visit there for a few days in 2003.
Completely agree! 2003 you say? You'd be surprised how much it changed. I was there the first time in 1990, right after the borders opened. Still had to stand in line for some bottled water and the restaurants ran out of beer... in Prague, of all places!! We had exchanged the then equivalent of some 30$ and could not spend that in a day, and hardly anything was renovated.
Today its almost too crowded, but we know our little secret places by now and still discover something new, every time we go there.