Something finally clicked for me today.
I woke up late, not sure what I wanted to do, so I decided to head to Tuileries to go to the Musee Orangerie since I hadn't been yet. I took a wrong metro exit and ended up at a different museum, which had a Diane Arbus exhibit. I love Diane Arbus so I knew I just had to go. Unfortunately I was so hungry, to the point where I was almost positive my stomach had started eating itself. But it was Diane Arbus! I decided to go inside.
Upon entering the museum, I found out it is one of the few in Paris that was going to actually make me pay to get in. A this is the last week and everyone is short on funds, I wasn't sure if I wanted to pay. But, again, it was Diane Arbus! Here's my lunch money, Mrs. Museum Lady.
What I can tell you is this: it was worth every penny. Diane Arbus' work is so beautiful and magnificent and everything I already knew it to be. She has used her camera not just to take a picture of a person, but to capture a time long forgotten. She made those who were not usually looked at in a beautiful way be a piece of art. Her photographs helped change the way I looked at her subjects.
It was in this moment, standing in front of a photo of a young child holding a toy grenade, that I realized what I want to do with my life. I want to capture. I want to capture moments in time, moments in space, moments within moments.
I have always loved taking pictures, for as long as I can remember, but it was in this moment that I realized that it was more than just a fun hobby. I want to do this for the rest of my life.
So thanks to a wrong exit and my lunch money, I learned something about myself. I learned that sometimes we just need to look into the eyes of someone else to realize what we have inside ourselves.
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