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Everyone has the right to pursue happiness in their own way so long as it doesn’t infringe on the right of others to do the same.

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a game show where a toddler has to choose between a cheque for a million dollars or a small basket filled with $8.14 worth of dollar store toys and in the corner of the tv you can see their parents in a locked sound proof room watching from a screen and screaming the whole time

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It now exists! It’s a UK game show called “What would your Kid do?” and the final segment is beautiful. 

May I refer you to this episode ending which is basically what @fartgallery wrote xD

https://youtu.be/HMUC8LEWPbY?t=1m54s

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Internet: An Other world

From conception, the internet has always been a place that is separate from reality, and yet it has opened up our individual lives to the whole world. Before we had to buy a book to see maybe 30 pictures of another culture, now thousands of pictures of hundreds of cultures are at our fingertips. 

Why am I talking about this? Writing anything online means leaving yourself vulnerable to strangers. I hope to talk about many things on here that I know some people will agree with, and others disagree (see lost post). The online community has it’s own rules and what is socially acceptable. It has cultures, formed in various corners of the internet, and that’s fantastic.

I guess my point of this small post is that the internet is an other world. A world full of strange, bizarre things, but a world for everyone. 

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The Power of Differing Opinion

You know what I’ve recently found extremely helpful - even relieving to think? Knowing that there will always be people that will disagree with me, won’t like me, my work or my opinions. No matter what I do, not everyone will be happy.

Why does this make me relieved? I think it’s because it takes the pressure of feeling the need to make everyone happy. In the creative industry this is norm: one client will love your design/photography/work but another won’t like it. It’s become a world full of opinions and you will quickly lose your own creative style if you try to please everyone.

Applying this to life is equally important. Personalities will clash, because the world is amazingly diverse and personally I wouldn’t have it any other way. Life would be so boring if we all had similar personalities.

So - and this is the important bit - if we accept that there are people that will not like us, then that also opens to the idea that there ARE people who like us, what we do and who agree with our opinions.

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Over Conceptualization

Why do people feel the need to complicate things? It seems that we are expected to always have an answer for why we do what we do, some greater meaning or concept that shows how deep we are.

This topic came up in conversation I had today: albeit in regards to photography, but we discussed how concept and conceptual means the same thing. If you have a concept, you have an idea. Whereas when you think of something being conceptual, suddenly it has deeper meaning. This doesn’t just apply to photography and art, if you want to do something because, God forbid, you like it, then why do you need any other reason? Sure, having more meaning in your thought process is great, I’m not saying it isn’t, but why force something into your way of thinking? You don’t have to answer to anyone but yourself, and if you are lying to others about yourself, then you are doing yourself a disservice.

I could go into more depth, but then, would that defeat my point? xD

Perhaps I will as this thinking develops...

Image: Painting by - you guessed it! Salvador Dali

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New blog: Why am I doing this?

Each of us have a right to live our lives in the way we see fit, whether it is for others, our own happiness, some divine calling or just taking each day one step at a time. Unfortunately, this means that people’s ideologies clash, and that causes arguments, social issues and even war.

I’m not pretending that this blog will stop this, nor am I pretending that I am above this, as we all are human. My intent is to write down and share my own thoughts in blog form, as other social media platforms are just not the right fit. Who really wants to see a friend on facebook post a mini rant on gender equality just after watching a video of another friend’s new cat/dog/baby?

I’m going to question and discuss many things in this blog, such as gender equality, stereotypes, my own (and other’s) experiences with discrimination, identity and society’s view on other’s choices. If you want to join me in this journey, then please feel free to follow and/or message me with your thoughts.