BEING ME NOW PAYS THE BILLS

From Emily Renier.

Problem is you’re too intense.

Problem is you over-think everything.

Problem is you dissect every single moment.

Problem is that you dwell on everything life has to offer. 

But what if one day, all these problems actually became solutions? Or my solutions. What if one day, rather than seeing those as problems, I saw them as my assets, as my strengths. As my super powers? 

And that’s what happened. From one day to the next, almost by magic, totally overnight, a light bulb moment, a switch turned upwards... and I had my answer. Everything that I thought was a problem, was actually a tool now. With a camera in hand, I am allowed to over-think it all, I am allowed to dwell in the moment, I am allowed to live life as if it is in slow-motion. I am allowed to find intensity and glorify it. I am allowed to give the purity of a moment the pause that it deserves. I am allowed to stop walking, stop running, stop chasing, and gaze. I am allowed to ponder. I am allowed to breathe it all in and breathe it all out. I am allowed to. Just. Take. It. All. In.

I am allowed to be me. And actually, it’s not just that, being me is what now pays bills.

This is what photography does for me. It lets me breathe it in and breathe it out. It lets me be me.

Emily Renier.