There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
The Apple iCam is a concept camera by Italian designer Antonio DeRosa that imagines a future where cameras are modular and powered by smartphones. Smartphones have already invaded the compact camera market in recent years, but their small lenses and sensors keep them from being seen as suitable alternatives to more advanced cameras. The iCam camera changes that by adding a large sensor and interchangeable lens system to the mix. Simply attach your iPhone 5 to the case and you’ll have yourself a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera with a huge LCD screen, fast processor, internet connectivity, and countless photo apps.
Life is so fragile. Every moment isn’t always a given. Life can be taken away from us in an instant and it’s ironic how not until we are faced with death do we remember how precious life is. Seeing death in our face reminds us how the things we make so big are so small and petty. It’s just not worth it. The arguments, the anger, the worrying, the fear. Everything. Every emotion that we experience seems to pale in comparison when faced with death. It’s just not worth it to waste life with undertones of emotion that in actuality keep us from living life. The very thing we’re so worried about living up to. So before we become so enveloped in the bad or want to focus on what’s not right or who made us mad, or what we just can’t bring ourselves to do; remember that life waits for no one. We could be gone in an instant, and in the end, those minute grievances would not matter. Make your life matter and appreciate the good. Let go of the bad. Because you never know when your last good moment will be. Live to appreciate life.
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But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness. The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us
