"A man dies the day his dreams have died" - Yaşar Kemal
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I recently came across a short street interview. The backdrop is a city in southeastern Turkey. The interviewer and interviewee are both young man in their early 20’s.
Q: “What is your biggest dream?”
A: “My biggest dream?...(pause)…I had a big dream…but I can’t remember it now”
Both start to giggle.
Q: “You can’t remember your biggest dream?”
Another short pause.
A: “I swear I can’t remember what it was”
A few days ago, Instagram recommended me an account. I recognized the name; it was an old friend from university. Back then we were both in the Track & Field team. I ran the long distances, and he was a very good 400m runner. After graduation he made his PhD in the US and then became an academician, a sociologist, at a university in Turkey. The last time I saw him was about 17-18 years ago. What intrigued me with his IG account name was that it ended with “music”. I went ahead and checked his feed and was almost knocked off my chair. He had turned into a musician, a guitarist, a singer and songwriter. Had produced 2 albums and 30 songs. Was doing live gigs and producing video clips. Had his music videos on Youtube, his songs on Spotify. He had grown long hair, and – to rub it really in - it was still black! I’d had no idea that he had all this in him. I haven't asked him how he felt about this transformation, but from my point of view, it all looked like he was living his big dream.
Firstly Omar I love that photograph - it just has something, also on a technical side, it's really hard to balance sea/sky and fading light - well done.
ReplyDeleteAs for dreams, well yeah, life can take some odd turns and you often end up driving down a road that is delightful, but you'd never have imagined you'd be there. I think following your heart is a good thing, that and trying to make the most of every day and appreciating life for something that might not initially be what you thought it could be, but that in the end is utterly satisfying.
Thanks Phil. When I first heard that interview I was quite amused, but of course the question to myself "what is/was your big dream" immediately followed. And that's when a looong ponder followed...
ReplyDeleteAs per technicalities, this is FP4+ magic. One cannot not make a decent print from FP4 ;-)
I totally agree, unless it has mottle - I've got about 12 rolls of 120 that I am now afraid to use - same with all my Ilford stuff - last roll of HP5 was mottled - it's really annoying.
DeleteThat's a wonderful picture though - dead intriguing - it's like there's nobody in the boat.
Pondering is fine, but it's no good dwelling on the what could have beens when the right here, right nows are in the room! That's a mashed quote from the great film Serendipity.
There’s actually a reclining figure in the boat. Lost in his own dreams maybe.
DeleteThe mottling issue is such a bummer. I know how painful it is.
Ah - yeah more than likely adrift in their thoughts.
DeleteThe mottle plays on my mind!