a piece of mine.

this piece won me a brand new Canon Rebel a couple years back at an art show.

i named the piece, Nostalgic Visitors.

nostalgia is a bitter-sweet friend.

a friend that visits me quite often.

a feeling i enjoy, memories i love remembering but almost torturous to know i can never have the experiences back for one more ride.

but instead of focusing on the past, good or bad, it is healthy to move forward.

and to keep up with time, and try to focus on the present.

rotten

"ever get the feelin' you've been cheated?"

and here i thought i was the one.

i am now seeing i'm just a learning device...

without any intention, just by coincidence and patterns of life.

i suppose it could be a lesson learned on my side as well.

unfortunately, it's real for me.

i feel pretty dumb.

apathetic contemplations

how sad when one becomes jaded.

when the simple excitement of everyday pleasures become bland.

when you've been spoiled by something so good, something you thought to be lucky

to have as a routine..

now has made one discontent.

are you less of a person at this point?

more high maintenance?

or just apathetic? will one strive to find something different or will they deal with what is making them now discontent?

does that make one greedy?

there are those who would kill for the life you live...

there could be a fine line between jaded and spoiled.

depending on which direction you're coming from.

or maybe what one is now jaded with was never good to begin with....

i guess that's just what one calls no longer being able to fake content-ness.

no longer being able to go through the motions of meaningless duties....

no longer being able to settle and compromise what you really want.

one could say that would be making progress.

from the beginning you had been unhappy.

is this making progress?

when it comes to our own individual satisfaction, we could hurt others.

selfish? or necessary?

i suppose that depends, as well.

photo taken by myself in Melbourne, Australia, '10.

the street art is amazing... saw more great work, but felt this piece

was appropriate for my post.