Losing ourselves

Photo by Mike Flemming.Copyright.

I think many of us would agree that we are happiest when we lose ourselves in some activity.And then how fast time seems to go.Like when you kiss your  beloved
When we are feeling down it’s not so easy to forget our self.We often think distractedly trying to find a reason for our discomfiture.
This is why writing,painting photography give us the chance to look outward.And so even if your work is not very good it’s still worth doing it.Photography is in some ways the best because usually unless we do portraits we will be outside looking at birds,trees,flowers and so on.Also we might meet a neighbour;I met one yesterday who has seen two blue moths in his garden which I’ve not seen for years.
Sometimes we compare our work to other people’s and feel despondent.But all learning takes lots of practise.And blurred photos make a good starting point for using Artweaver or Pixlr online editor.
Also learning new things makes everyone anxious.Some  people give up because of that but if you keep going it will pass.
People think that if you are intelligent you can learn or even know things without learning them,like being a concert pianist!

Yesterday I had an instance of this.I met a neighbour for tea.She has just got a tablet.She thinks it’s a Kindle Fire but it’s not.
Anyway she asked me to set it so that English and Hebrew or both available.~Well I didn’t even know that was possible .I fiddled with it for a while and managed to do it.. so she was impressed but one thing I know is that there are only so many possibilities and if you go through them you will find  the one you want..Of course we were relaxed, unlike in an exam  and that helps.If you are tense your vision narrows,so I read.
I tried it on my Kindle Fire and it just went entirely into Hebrew so if you see my next post from that do remember to read right to left

It’s quite hard to change it back if you don’t know the language.But I did it!The art of doing things is to keep trying different possibilities…but sometimes   one can get obsessed so use a timer and stop after a certain length of time.