I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Peoples, D., & Scott, R. (Director). (1982). Blade Runner [Movie]. Warner Bros.
These photographs were taken a few days ago from an airplane flying to a certain destination, of little importance at this moment what it was.
They correspond to a trip whose goal was not only to reach a place, but also to close a cycle that began 20 years ago. On December 13, 2004. I needed to take distance, savor the moment and share it with people who appreciate me, away from the daily routine, from the stimuli that set in motion the automatisms, that living without being present.
These images are a sample of my current passage through this world. Not so many years ago, they surely would not have been possible. To capture these moments, I had to choose a window seat and a flight with a specific departure time.
My reason for choosing a window seat is very simple. I am a privileged person who is able to travel several times a year out of town. A privileged person who has the opportunity to see reality from places that neither Napoleon nor Julius Caesar could see. A privileged person who is not willing to miss even one of those unique moments that will never come back.
There is a lot of insistence on the need to integrate and implement good habits to achieve any goal. I do not doubt it, but habits are addictive. Francis Bacon already warned us that anything repeated several times becomes a pleasure. I would say that habits, even good habits, can become a prison.
This happens when habits become an end and not a means. In a satisfaction by themselves, away from their initial purpose: to achieve a goal that brings us happiness.
I was talking to @palomap3 a few days ago about death and happiness. I have passed the halfway point of my life, I have far fewer years left to live than I have lived. There are loved ones who are no longer with me. Some time ago I decided not to be the first or the second or the third in anything, not to stand out, not to be the best, not to be recognized. Long ago I made the decision to live.
The awareness of death has become something very important for me, I share with Paloma that it is liberating. Death turns life into a small miracle, and I can assure you that I have no intention of not taking advantage of this opportunity built of singular moments.
Going back to these images I present today, they were made possible because someone decided, at some point in their life, that the journey was at least as important as the goal.
Another decision made, and closely related to the above, is the decision to live from vulnerability. I can appreciate this quite clearly in the soundtrack that accompanies me today.
I hope you enjoy these photographs taken by a human being who is starting a new cycle in his life.
Thank you for joining me.
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