For a while I thought the goal of life was to be happy and to find joy through my photography. The more that I consider the meaning of life, the more I realize it has nothing to do with happiness. Happiness is an easy state to achieve. Just stand underneath the sun, go for a walk, feel the ground beneath your feet in a park. Happiness is easy to achieve.
So what is the goal then?
We are biologically hardwired to reproduce offspring. Of course this isn’t something that we all must do, but I believe that is the endgame goal in nature. This ultimately doesn’t make you happy because you have to wrestle with a newfound burden that becomes detrimental to your health and freedom. In this case, maybe the goal is to seek bigger challenges, problems to solve, and to create solutions that can benefit yourself or other people.
My current goal is to increase my strength each day in the gym, to focus on my physiological health and well-being, and to produce more art.
My photographs are my children.