Someone said, it’s not good to think of past, one should live in present, like kids do...
Kids craft their own world out of nothing. Sometimes they
try to catch air like they are in garden full of colourful butterflies; they
swing in air like they are the best dancers; they sing like a rockstar. Really
past and future are only grammar things for them. They live every single moment
in present...
Thank god we have
camera to capture those moments in photograph. Clicking a photograph is not a
simple task; one has to freeze those perfect moments so those moments can live
forever inside photograph.
When kids grow up, so many complexities come in so many
forms. They realize that future is not just a tense, it’s something which they can’t
see but their all efforts will have to be for future only. Again I am thankful
to God, now a day’s technology is giving us a view of future and we have some artistic
imaginary images of future...
Literally I have to say sometimes these photographs do time
machine’s job. I am not talking about movies, but those flashbacks are really
awesome. What else we can wish from a time machine, just to travel in our best
time. These photographs do the same. I still wonder how my father was so
fascinated about clicking pics, somewhere he also knew that those colourful moments
will never come again, so why not to capture in photograph. I wonder how we
used to be so mad for that phone cam in college days. We used to try so many
poses and I was the declared mad by ‘a group of crazy creatures’, my friends.
Sometimes they used to say I have to pay them for click.
Soon our all (not so) hard efforts started giving us fruits
and complexities came in form of different cities. I earned some money and
bought a cam far better than that phone cam. But very soon I realized it’s not
the megapixel or price of cam, it’s the moments which matters for a good
photograph. I did some attempts to recreate those moments, but somewhere those
crazy creatures and stupidity were always missing. Now I am ready to pay those
mad guys, but they don’t have time to click me.
Again as usual complexities came in a different form with
fake smiles and I had to pretend that I am also happy like everyone. I stopped
pretending, so I stopped laughing as well. Now I just smile for the sake of
laugh...
I have some photographs, which sometimes seem old and faded
comparatively to my latest photographs. But only I know the beauty of those
photographs. Those photographs are not only image files, they have power of flashbacks
and believe me I use to travel in past where I am chasing colourful butterflies
and singing like a rockstar...
