Do you know who you are?

This question was asked of me by a friend.... I was like "yeah ofcourse. I am Alice. I am a lawyer. I work in a law firm".. blah blah blah..my friend didnt seem impressed..and insisted that I try and answer this question after some thot....Now that insistence really caught me by surprise...why do I need to ponder over such an inane question....

but the truth is not many people can honestly say who they are....many find a spouse and take recourse to that life as being an identity...it is after all the most common and perhaps the least challenged one.....many find an identity from their work and over play the same to ensure that nobody challenges it....while others go through genuine attempts to find out who they are by dabbling in many myriad exercises - changing jobs, hobbies, travelling etc...

I really dont know whether I have made any genuine attempts to find out the inner core of my personality...many times some things happen that throw me off guard and make me wonder whether I interpreted the person or the event correctly...but all along I have always told myself.."You are fine. It will all work out"...

I doubt whether anybody really knows their place in life completely...even Gandhi kept experimenting with truth till a bullet stopped him in his tracks....or maybe in a way the bullet was the final confirmation that he had indeed achieved his purpose in life....

I frankly dont know what my purpose in life is...but I sincerely hope I dont have to take a bullet to find out....

Artistic License....

I have always thot of myself as having an eye for taking good photographs...to me photos are like precious moments captured in a bottle and kept on the side for everyone to walk past and admire...okk now that was slightly too tangential but you get the drift....I want to improve my photography ...and any tips would be welcome.....