7/10/2016
Usually, when I take and process a gorgeous photo like this, I like to compliment it with a motivational quote. But this time, I’d like to tell a short story involving symbolism.
I took this photo just a few short days after moving out of my mother’s house and moving into a house of my own. I had just recently made the choice to end the bad relationship I was in, and proceed on my own. For a little while, life wasn’t as happy as it could have been. As the days passed, and the closing on my house got closer, I became increasingly less happy.
And then I moved. I moved into a new house, to make new memories, new relationships, with new people. Leaving all of the poison and bad memories behind me.
This photo, even though I hadn’t noticed when I took it, symbolizes looking away from the shadows and darkness of our old lives, and looking forward, and into the light and sunshine of a new life. The whole left half of the photo is significantly darker than the right half, which is bathed in sunshine, and in some spots, so bright you can’t even see it clearly.
I’d like to think that it’s a symbol of the new life we are starting. So unbelievably bright, and full of possibilities.
“Keep your face always towards the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
