Humans being Humans

I love to click and record things that are important to me. I wouldn't say that I'm a professional videographer or photographer. I have a very average phone camera and minimal storage space with even less camera skills. But shooting the people around me is something I do for the joy of my heart.

I love to observe people- and I do it almost subconsciously. I love the little things that make them THEM. I notice how they hold their coffee cups. I notice how they lean on the person next to them because they are comforted by their presence. I notice how their whole demeanour lightens up when someone they like enters the room. I notice how they fully concentrate on their food while eating and wouldn't even care if fireworks went around them. I notice how they laugh without any fear. I notice how they pout just that little when something goes against what they wished for. I notice it all and I love to capture all of it into a tiny little frame.

And it's all because I just love humans being humans.

You know, if you stop for a second and stare all around you, you will come to notice that maybe life is not all that complicated. We were put on this earth to love and to lose and to love again- to find beauty even when all the odds are against us. And you can see that every single person goes through it all. No one is spared from it. Not you or I or the person walking outside of your house right now. The smiling lady you see on the bus while commuting to college might have a whole lot of pain hidden inside of her. The rude girl with the headphones on might be texting her long-distance best friend and having her heart explode in utter joy. We try to conceal what we truly feel for vulnerability is scary to us. But if you look close enough, you will notice that lady's sleepy eyebags and chipped nails. If you closely enough, you will find that rude girl's lips to be slightly upturned as she keeps on tapping on her phone.

As the poets say, we bleed emotions.

And emotions are almost sacred to me. For I believe, a human is only ever truly one when he feels every feeling in the book. And every single one of those emotion is something I aspire to capture before my life ends. For it is proof that ultimately, we all are just.. humans, and it is okay to feel anything and everything.

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