Overcoming (little) pain

I have just created a new gallery: “Animals” —> “DRAGONFLIES” . At the moment there are only 4 pictures, I wish you’ll enjoy them anyway.

Below I want to share with you a little “note” I wrote on 18th November 2008:

Problems, pains and a lot of things can make life so awful that it seems almost no worth to live… but we have to go ahead and with time we learn that we have to deal with this negative aspects and most of the times we cannot overcome problems without the proper support.
This support can come from friends or relatives or “something else” that everyone reaches walking along his/her own way… one of these ways, in my case, is photography.

Taking pictures, in my case, is not only a way to appreciate that world beauty I wouldn’t notice otherwise, it’s also trough this “hobby” I can find a way to stand little problems alike pain, that famous “leg pain” that bothers me since I was 15 years old. It isn’t a big deal but it can be really annoying because sometimes I am slowed down by pain and it makes me complain a lot (Well… I am also really good at complain).
How can taking picture be a way to accept pain?
JUST… I have noticed that if I have to suffer “leg pain” started with no reasons seems like the biggest problem in my life, whereas, it is much easier to overcome if I decide to try to ignore it in order to take a picture! (Not always, but most of the time it works this way).

In the same way, I usually don’t complain if I start feeling pain because I had to adopt weird stances to shot pictures. I behave this way not because I have a “bad conscience” (I usually mock myself to have been clumsy) but because I have learn that this is a little price I have to pay for having the chance to “pin” in a picture a small but amazing part of that Eternal Beauty that created everything that surround us.
Looks like that the passion for photography and the conscience that trough it I can appreciate at least part of that Beauty, can work as a perfect painkiller!

To take this pictures I squatted down in front of this dragonfly for several minutes, my legs didn’t enjoy it, but I hope it was worth.

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Tags: Alqantara, Animals, Catania, Dragonflies, Thoughts