"Its not about business, its about PASSION"
Hello World,
When I started this website, I thought it would be a place to find customers, and a place where customers could find me. I wanted to show my work to the world in an attempt to make some money? I use a question mark on the statement because I don't believe I was consciously making that choice.
I feel like, here in the states, we are inadvertently taught to take the thing we love, the thing that makes us tic, and either use it as a tool to make money (i.e. weddings photography, advertisement and marketing etc.), or put it to the side as we pursue more "practical" ways of life.
This was my priority list when I made this site:
Create site
Get the word out
Create price list
Charge people
Make them look all super-cali-fragilsitic-expi-ala-docious
Get paid.
...rinse and repeat.
But the problem is, thats not what makes me tic. Grant it, I hope to make money off of what I do, but I want it to be under my own terms. I recently was blessed with a chance to travel to Cuba and something hit me while standing in line for a club (for 2 hours...the old me, the out for a good time in Miami me, is rolling her eyes at a two hour wait, but when in "Habana"...) The tour guide Jesus, promised this was one of the best places to be, he went on to explain that the club only plays live music, its very popular, and opens from the hours of 12 am. - 3 am. (I got in line at 10 and the line was already going down the street).
Im not a club person per say but I love good music, and even I know thats a short amount of time to par-tay. Miami clubs are open from Dusk to dawn, In Boston you have to be out the house early because everything is shutting down at 2 am. Mind you we had to pay to get into this place- and once they found out we were from "Estado Unidos" they were all like yeah...the entry price just went up. So not only is the club loosing out on money in my eyes, but the customers are being cheated, paying for what seems like a blink of an eye of a good time.
Back to me standing in line with Jesus... I asked him how being open from 12 am.- 3 am. could be good for business (a loaded question when talking about a business in Cuba) he looked at me confused...uh oh did I say something I wasn't supposed to say??
"Its not about business, its about passion"
Shut down by jesus.
And thats when it hit me. No matter how one may feel about whats going on in Cuba, the one thing that in undeniable is its abundance of passion- and life- like real "in the moment" life.
Not to sound all "hippie conspiracy theorist" and junk but I realized that my mentality has been molded by the society around me. It never occurred to me that photography could be my passion in life for the "soul" purpose of being my passion. Why was I stressing about the money- because thats what I have been taught to do...In reality its what I need to do. I want to be self sufficient...but just like the club (with the line down the block) wanted the best experience possible for the customers...three hours for one band a night...and lets worry about the money later. I need to follow my passion if Im really going to give this things a fighting chance in a land plagued with 9-5 work days.
I have a year and a half left of school...lets see what I can do with that time.
New Priorities...
Do me. Care less about the rest.