Film Diaries: June
I don't know whether it's summertime sadness, lunar eclipse or just overall fatigue caused by high temperatures and vacation lust but these last couple of weeks I feel tired and not particularly inspired or motivated to do anything. Social media makes it worse: I could spend hours just aimlessly scrolling my feed or watching somebody else's lifes through Stories and feeling like sh*t (read FOMO). Whatever amazing life you are living, social media somehow manage to make you feel down: comparing yourself with somebody else's experiences is never a good thing. The only person I should compare myself is me 1 week/month/years ago. The world today is making us always run faster, achieve better results and #neverstop. The thing is that no matter how mindblowing my personal achievements are, they worth nothing if I don't take time to appreciate it, to look back in time, stop and smell the roses. It is definitely much easier said than done. Every injection of short euphoria caused by a particular achievement is replaced by fear of never be able to do something this great again and rush to get back on a track. And this endless race makes me feel miserable from time to time.
That's why in May I decided to start my personal project I called "1 month - 1 film roll" and to try take 1 picture per day that highlights every day of the month. Sort of the best or the most important thing that happened to me each day of the month. The fact that I cannot look through the film roll until it got developed in the end of the month makes me look back in time and kind of appreciate everything that happened to me during the last 30 days. In fact, even though 1 month is such a short period of time, I kind of forget most of its highlights. For now I only did it for 2 months but I already see the impact on my personal esteem of this new habit. Ok, enough with words, here below I am going to show you my June 2019 in a nutshell, entirely shot on my film camera with no editing or whatever.
So, my June was about...
