The Questions Have Answers

Who am I? Why am I doing this? Who am I doing this for?

I ask myself these questions almost every time I post.

And the answer is simple.

I am just me.

I am doing this because it is my way of communication with the world.

I am doing this for you.

You might be anyone. Anyone who has enough affinity by grace of the heavens to have allowed me to show you my view of life. I am deeply thankful for that.

To my dearest friends, thank you for your immense support of my efforts with Notes up till now. I cannot express enough sentiment in words alone to tell you how thankful I am that there are people out there, people like you, who follow what I post. It makes all the difference between posting with passion, and posting with mere regularity.

Thanks to you, I get inspiration to write. Energy to shoot. Courage to post. A way to live.

I am an amateur writer, and merely a fledging photographer. I am easily influenced by the works of others, and I give all due credit to the people behind Please Find This & Runawaytrain for having been the reason why I dared to set this up in the first place, as well as constantly giving tips to writing and posting in subtle ways.

And I recognize that I am young. Impressionistic. Insecure.

Truth to be told, I consider myself more of a writer than a photographer.

I go by the mantra of trying to let you understand what I feel about you and me, in less than ordinary ways. Trying to express what has not been written in the same way before. I enjoy writing because it is the only universal medium that seems to be a human construct, which makes it all the more intrinsic and wonderful.

The photos as of now are a sideline, although an indispensable sideline. These two have gone hand in hand thus far, and will go on as well.

 But photography is a sideline that is physically and mentally challenging.

Just so you know, these photos do not come out of nowhere.

They come out of trips specially made for your sake.

They come out of enduring quizzical glances from many a nonplussed passerby. They come out of numerous hours spent under the sun. They come out of the few, maybe less than 5 photographs that can actually see daylight on Notes, out of the possibly tens of photos that can be snapped in one day.

Just so you know as well. I enjoy doing this. For you, nonetheless.

And for me as well. It is a good stress relief outlet. A tangible way of recording down an average person's notes on life, love and learning.

Almost every post has a person, or persons that it is inspired by, or directed to. Most of the time, these posts originate out of the relationships I have with the people around me. Most are notes about a specific you, written for you. Some are reminders and lessons for myself. Some are given as my notes on the general "you".

I am considering making Notes public. And I would like to hear your opinions on it so I might be asking you about it in the upcoming few days. Or you could share what you feel with me. I would deeply appreciate that.

Some of you are incredulous about the stamina by which I have devoted to updating the picture blog. You should not be. My devotion to this cause only stems from one point,

I Love You.