I had a photo-shooting time at the botanical park last 2 weeks ago. Joie was there to photograph his 2 friends (made a series of photos called Nature Whisperer) and I was enjoying myself with my DC finding thing that attract me. I was spotted by Bob when I was trying to capture a photo and we sat down to talk after I realized he stood there talking to Joie.
Bob is a retiree from the States and he's here with the temple in Pulau Tikus for the charity work. He's a buddhist and he travels to many places since his young age. He told me that I caught his attention while he passes by. He said he saw me being patient when taking photographs and so he thinks I am into macro photography. He then made a recommendation about a place in Penang call Monkey Beach where one can find very beautiful sea-shell in macro photography.
We chatted for a while where he kindly shared his experience about how macro allows one to see the beauty of tiny tiny details which others don't usually and easily see. He shared too the photos that he took and also his perceptions about things.
The world is full of colors, some through the big while others from the tiny which we may easily overlook if never see it carefully. We tend to be fascinated by the big pictures and over exeggerated the feelings and senses until we neglected the importance of looking into the little details.
Our desire for pleasure become bigger and bigger over time because we have become used to the satisfaction we got through the huge thing we demand and losing our attention in appreciating things that exist silently or unobviously.
Feeding the hunger of desire is often dangerous. We become ignorant when the idea of becoming successful and happy is defined by the portrayed image rather than the content inside. We eventually become vulnerable to the threats of being manipulated because we no longer ourselves but being valued (and also valuating others) by what others see us (or judgment on others).
What actually make you happy? Feel contented with the ability to appreciate everything that you have so that you can move on in life continuing to achieve the accomplishment of becoming better by no only concentrating on your self interests but also taking others' goodness into account? Or becoming the richest and not paying attention to small little beauty at all?
A teacher asked: If you are given a choice between (1) having abundance of money and all sort of monetary satisfaction while others are in poverty; (2) others are having the endless richness but you are only surviving, what would you choose?
Well, what do you think?
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