Let Us Celebrate in the Name of Love:
Happy Valentines Day Beloved Fellowship!
Thank you, we are now reaching over 4000 souls!!!
Have you ever witnessed someone else caught in a moment of deep intimacy? We more often do than dare to admit to ourselves. Diverting our eyes and carrying our unconscious heads away, it is unconsciously accompanied by an unfortunate shameful feeling. How legitimate is that though? Our passions and unsurpassed longing for love brings our souls to stirrings and soar out of nowhere, often to our own surprise or even disbelief!
Today, I thought I’d share with you one of those intimate moments, a moment I had not intended in catching on its flight but one that nevertheless still moves me every time I contemplate this photograph. I wondered why is it moving me so much? Is it because I know the people involved? Is it because I was in their presence as it came about to fruition? Maybe?!? Or, does this feeling of intimacy rise more meaningful content within me? Poking through darkness, the light had shun!
The seemingly fleeting face of love we seek here and there often takes the shape of natures aesthetics and enraptures our bewildered senses… We are longing for more, deeper meaning, wholesome feelings, oneness within ourselves and the so-called others.
At that moment, as one can easily see in the picture below, a friend of ours was walking out into the distance and I thought that maybe, just maybe, a good opportunity for a shot would arise when, out of the corner of my lens came this youthful unabashedly loving kiss. Still to this day, to my astonishment, my finger instinctively pressed the shutter!
It was as if my whole being had desired to keep this image for posterity, as if within this moment of rushing desires my mind had been caught by a wave of life’s consciousness presenting itself to the world, as if nature itself wanted me to give it exposure. My heart and mind had came as one for a reason or reasons well beyond me and apparently beyond my immediate control too!?. Feeling very exposed for daring to do so, I felt like I had peeked where I shouldn’t have so to speak. In this instance, I was wondering whether or not it was really the case, I started inquiring within… Meanwhile, I had decided that I needed to ask both of them individually to see if it was o.k. by them to have had succumbed to the temptation, pushing the button, and keep this picture. Would they redeem my sinful infringement? As I told them then, I was feeling uneasy for unknown reasons as something was scurrying under my internal scrutiny.
As it were, they both liked and greatly appreciated the shot. They didn’t have any concerns about me having captured their tenderness… As for me, I guess I am still wondering where the impulse at this point in time came from. At least, I have came to terms with it and feel good about the results of the photograph itself and, more importantly, I stopped wondering whether I had actually infringed on something I shouldn’t have. The mystery lives within and I embraced it. Time did tell.