A semi-serious post about getting a new camera.

At the end of May will be my 23th birthday, this means that  in less than 3 months I’ll get older.

I know, I get older everyday but that day I’ll officially start over another year, the 24th of my life.

Today I focused on 4 “good” reasons why I want to get a new camera for my 23th birthday.

The first is a mere reason of time. My Olympus E300 is still working in a great way but it’s an entry level reflex and after almost 5years I start feeling the need to get something “more” to put beside my little girl…

The other 3 reasons came after a more complex thinking.

The first days of 2010 made me realize that: This is the decade in which I’ll start my 30′s… therefore this is the decade that will define the rest of my life. In this decade I’ll probably start my job (or more likely my frustrated and unemployed life), I’ll  probably get married and, who knows, even become a mother. I’m already late about all this life-stuff.

I felt terrible about it. I don’t mind of getting old, I don’t even look forward it, I just want to “get old” in the proper way, to do the right things  in the best way and at the proper time.

Therefore I hate the idea of getting 23 because I’ll be 23 and still far away from my graduation in physics (that I was supposed to get by the end of year 2009). I hate this delay, I’m mad at me for this; then the coming birthday will yell this delay to the world. I know the world doesn’t care about it, but this isn’t the point. The point is that there is this yell that I can hear and that keeps me awake at nights, and I want to contrast it with study (already in progress) and especially with Beauty and the only way I know to find It is through taking pictures. This is the second reason.

A third reason is that I wanted to start a 365 project with the coming of the year 2010. I gave up.
A few weeks later, like early February, I decided to start this for my 23rd birthday mainly to prove to myself, and to those ones who care, that despite all the bad aspects there are still a lot of worthy aspect in my life.

The fourth may sound like the first because it is related to the fact of “getting a new camera that helps to improve my taking pictures skills”… but it’s essentially a reason of hope and of love for photography.
Something I’d like to never give up, despite all the problems it may cause.

Actually my dream is still to fully focus my life on photography, but I also know that “Dreams are dreams and they are many, while truth is truth and it’s the only clear one”.