Life is truly fascinating. I mean everything is relative or gray, perception is the only thing that is black and white. I look at myself, through the judgmental black and white lens of impatience and wonder why it is that I am not the successful sought after photographer/writer I set out to be when I left advertising. I look and judge comparing this venture to previous leaps in my life that were more successful.
So as I was researching some trivia one day I had an epiphany, standing in the middle of Times Square in NYC with yellow cabs, delivery trucks and bicycle messengers whizzing by. It may appear as if I’m standing still and not moving but all I have to do is look up at any building and notice the clouds moving behind them, except the clouds are not really moving it’s the earth rotating, it’s me moving on this spinning rock from morning to noon to night. What’s even more fascinating is the fact that although we appear to be rotating just a bit faster than a snail's pace the REALITY is we're spinning pretty fast. Consider this, the earth is about 25,000 miles around and we cover that distance in 24 hours. That’s about 1,000 MPH and if you adjust for the longitude and latitude of NYC it’s actually 800 MPH… a far cry from a snail's pace.
So when ever I feel like my career is leaving a trail of slime behind me and I should avoid salt I think about the surface of the earth speeding through space and I realize that although it appears to not be happening as fast as I would like… it IS happening and relatively fast.
So as I was researching some trivia one day I had an epiphany, standing in the middle of Times Square in NYC with yellow cabs, delivery trucks and bicycle messengers whizzing by. It may appear as if I’m standing still and not moving but all I have to do is look up at any building and notice the clouds moving behind them, except the clouds are not really moving it’s the earth rotating, it’s me moving on this spinning rock from morning to noon to night. What’s even more fascinating is the fact that although we appear to be rotating just a bit faster than a snail's pace the REALITY is we're spinning pretty fast. Consider this, the earth is about 25,000 miles around and we cover that distance in 24 hours. That’s about 1,000 MPH and if you adjust for the longitude and latitude of NYC it’s actually 800 MPH… a far cry from a snail's pace.
So when ever I feel like my career is leaving a trail of slime behind me and I should avoid salt I think about the surface of the earth speeding through space and I realize that although it appears to not be happening as fast as I would like… it IS happening and relatively fast.
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