Last year when I heard this speech it particularly stuck to
me, it changed the way I thought about others and how I handled situations in
my day to day life. Honestly I never stopped to think maybe this customer who
is arguing over a $2 dollar price difference just was evicted from her
apartment and needs to buy her child new shoes. In a world where we constantly
think about ourselves others issues seem non-existent.
Wallace stated, “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and
awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other
people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy
ways, every day.” What I take from this quote is the ability to truly put
yourself second to what is around you and this allows you to be free to think
in multiple ways and takes you out of the “default setting” in which we mainly
stay. This is very important in photography, amongst other things, because as a
photographer you have the ability to either obscure or bring attention to an
issue and it is somewhat selfish for us to not share.
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