Best surprises come from forgotten film rolls. Life before pandemic situation. Guanajuato, 2019 on portra 400.
The common life, routines around early hours, all surrendered by silence, the sky starts to show the first sings of light, city is not awake yet, we tend to rely on our sleepy heads. Life from early hours filling our deepest desires.
5AM, the darkness is still composing silenced landscapes through my window, the entire life outdoors is still asleep, the city sleeps while the night is still dancing, the air smells like rain, my coffee is aiming stories using memories from past days, nature from outdoors is still ruling my mind and thoughts.
The simple things should be the happiest ones, always.
The hours I like and enjoy the most are those where the world is still asleep, where the dark of night is still ruling the entire place and there is nothing but the sound of silence, those hours where nothing is there but everything remains. Those are the moments where my mind can feel an intense flow, those are the ones that rule my entire day.
There is nothing but the motion of life on its simplest way.
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
To find comfort and times of joy around simple routines by knowing to understand the real privilege of being able to get those kind of days through all these crazy times and by taking advantage of the pure calm that those moments can wrap, by staying present in the moment, by getting to know me better. By allow myself to go through those internal motions.
To keep learning from a natural and simple environment without the pressure of an actual world with non-stop running race, to find comfort and calm by appreciating the simpler things in life. To document life and the different appreciations and interpretations around us.
R.
About the simple things that can make a morning great and to allow us to feel alive and safe, about the way on how our internal motion impulses our thoughts and emotions and how unnecessary and irrelevant a bunch of other things can be felt. About happiness on recognition of the simple things around us. Among other things.