I'll Find You// Essay Draft

Finding things takes effort. It is a journey that we have all taken.

First, there is the realization that something is missing. Sometimes it takes a while for us to see something that is missing—other times, it does not take more than minute. When this something becomes a part of our everyday life, it is easy to forget that it is there. That is, of course, until it is gone. Other instances, it takes a need of said lost thing to realize that it is indeed lost. There does not have to be a large sign when it goes missing. That small need is all it takes. Even the smallest thing of importance can leave a hole in your heart.

So we search for it. Asking around in our own minds—where could it have gone? What could have happened to it? Did I lose it? …Or did it leave? For something so important, shallow answers are clueless. To lose something that is a part of you will take effort to find and we have to go deeper.

Giving up is not an option. If you are not willing to journey to find it, it does not deserve to be found by you.  

Of course, the path to the lost is not an easy one. Speed bumps and walls block the way. Diligence and focus will get you through. You cannot doubt yourself for a second. For a split second of doubt is a crash. You are hindered from then on. That doubt is always with you, that doubt will slow you down. Should you give in, it will stop you completely.

But faith and desire will keep you moving. It is important to find what you have lost. Stand up. Keep moving.

There is no weakness in asking for help. Even the friendliest of sources can be intimidating. The doubt returns to tell you that it is a pointless journey, that no one can help, that you are not strong enough to do this should you ask for help. The latter is often true. Face this head on, or you may find yourself going in the wrong direction.

We do not always find what we are looking for. If it does not come easily, we give up. If it is not waiting for us, we do not care. If it left, why should we seek it out? Why should we even bother?

Why? Because we need it to face our monsters. Perhaps it cannot be found. Maybe it was never there to begin with—something you deluded yourself into believing that you had. Maybe it is something you have yet to learn.

Face it. Fight it.

Find it.

I'll Find You

 

All different in the same way

http://www.fulltable.com/vts/f/fbm/e.htm

Business men! The make the world go round, whether we like it or not. They are the people who get things done, they are the people who control more than one person should, they are the people who wear nothing but suits.

Fortune's Businessmen photo series focuses, clearly, on men dressed professionally, clearly in positions of power. Different kinds of power, in fact. One looks like a judge, another like a senator of some sort, and one who even looks like a crime boss. Each have possibly very different careers and areas of expertise, but they all of things in common. They get things done, they have power, and they wear suits.

Each of these men are very different and yet very the same. For one, you can see the faces of all the men and they are all centered in the photos. At least everything from the waste up is visible. To me it almost feels like the photographer was trying to imply that they are the same. It's ridiculous! It would be a shorter list to name the things they don't have in common.  A main difference I would like to point out (next to the fact that they aren't the same person over and over again, I swear) they are all in different places. Inside, outside, in a vehicle, leaving a vehicle-- no two are in the same place. To me it points out that they are all doing different things. They have different responsibilities and lives.

Without meaning to, I assumed that the first six pictures of the men (as they were the first ones that I could see on my screen)  were all doing 'good' things. I naturally assume that everyone does things with the purest intentions, including politics, which these men seem to be. I realize this is a rather naive way of thinking, but I still think it. That is, until I saw the last photo centered towards the bottom. This man is the one, as I mentioned earlier, who seems like a crime boss. It's probably the hat that makes me think that way. Realize that the man could very well be on the 'evil' side of power, I remembered all the similarities I saw through the pictures and my position on the other changed. Perhaps they weren't men trying their best to help others. Maybe that was the point the photographer was trying to make.

I thought it was a very creative way of presenting the photos. The first six within sight and the last one out of sight, just waiting for you to scroll down. I quite enjoyed how it was arranged, and if I were being honest I would have to say the way that the photos were arranged affected how I saw them the most. If they were in a different order or perhaps in a straight line I would have read them differently at a glance. I can tell a lot of thought when into how they were laid about and that affects the meaning a lot. I'll have to note that for my own photo series.

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