I’ve come to terms with the following two facts.
1) It is my destiny to be a photographer. I love observing the world and what better way to comment on it and expand the reality of people living in this world than through the cold, real, un-spun reality that is the lens.
2) The culture within which I live, with the need to provide financial streams to my loving family to pay for housing, food, clothing, transportation, medical care, and 900 channels of satellite-provided entertainment require that I remain “in the system” of capitalistic America.
There are those in the new space called, among other things, Web 2.0, that preach that it is possible to live in both worlds as long as I’m willing to “hustle” 24/7.
I get where this comes from, but, the reality of practicality in our modern society says that to expect to succeed at two tasks sufficiently well to thrive when competing against those that are able to focus on a singular mission is unreasonable.
If I was somehow strangly blessed with a natural ability, to have skills burned into my DNA, that made one of these two missions easy, or at least more easy than for most, then I could buy in to this concept of doing what you must do to be able to do what you love full time.
But what happens if you need to work twice as hard to do both what you must as well as on what you love?
I’ve come to realize that, at the end of the day, once again, we have confused evolution with progress.
