Photography by Justine MaccarioToday was a productive day... last night was a productive night... this week was a productive week... hopefully, it's a productive month....
With the photography show coming up, a million invites to make, a couple of personal projects, blah blah blah, I am pretty calm... I've been up for so long, I can't remember sleeping, but I'm calm.
So, with everything going on... the highlight of my day was coming home to dinner with my family. My parents were having dinner when I got home, so I joined them at the kitchen table. We were having potatoes, beef patties (katlet in Armenian), and spinach... but, of course, being Armenian, we have to have the bread and cheese along with anything and everything. Oh, and I also had a yogurt drink (taan)... which is so necessary to point out.
So, we sat there eating, and my dad, being the technology freak that he is, announced that he finally got his Ipad today. Then, he said, "You wanna see? It's over there..." pointing to the dining room table with a scary grin on his face. I looked over at the table and smiled at him, happy for him because those gadgets make him so happy. He's probably happier when he buys a new t.v., which is twice a year, than he was on his wedding day...
So, my mom brought the Ipad to the table as we started searching Youtube videos to watch...
My mom was staring at it with a weird look on her face as she wondered how people made these things... my dad looked at it as if he was in love, and I just sat there watching the both of them, thinking about how weird it must be for them to experience this, as they've gone from no t.v., in their childhood, to a handheld t.v., like the Ipad. I thought about how many productive days the people in the world have gone through to have gotten as far with technology as we are today.
Tip of the Day: Spend time with your parents as many chances as you get in life... they're a priceless experience to observe. Watching them, as you get older, makes you realize the things you've missed before... good or bad, it's an experience. They've gone through so many productive days in their life, that the only way to feel their experiences is to watch them carefully.
This is a very long quote, but please read it to the end...
"I am me. In all the world, there is no one exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it - I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By doing so, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects of myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know - but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later, some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and, therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay."
Virginia Satir
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