Today a group of us braved the inclement weather conditions and the desperate late-running tourists to visit the London Aquarium. We saw a lot of fish. Here are some photos:
I downloaded some of the photos from my camera, and then walked away from my laptop to do something else. When I came back, the screensaver had come on, and it was merrily showing some a random selection of my photos, one after another. I stopped for a while and watched.
Some of the photos I really like, some make me cringe. Some are poignant, while others make me laugh out loud. Some are out of focus and some I wished I’d used a different shutter speed. Some remind me of people or places I see rarely now, others remind me of a time, a season or a holiday.
As I was watching the photos scrolling through, it struck me that life’s a bit like that, like all my photos on random. If you just picked the files I liked, you’d get a kinda skewed view of who I am, whereas on shuffle they give a much more rounded view… of the places I’ve visited, the people I love, and the things that are important to me.
Life strikes me as being made up of a jumble of different experiences, and if we tried to understand them as stand alone events, we’d be probably more than a little confused. But, seen as part of that bigger picture they make more sense, they fit somehow, they are less able to overwhelm us with their good or bad. It’s like looking at the slideshow rather than the individual pictures gives a better sense of perspective.
Those were my random thoughts today.
