The secret to life's happiness, I believe is to have a purpose. That might be your children, your music, or your Venus Fly Trap. Having something depend on us, having something we can make better, it fulfills whatever it is that we need to make what we go through worth it.

Life goes on, even when ours ends, and hopefully life will be just that much better, maybe a little less suffering for those in the near future. We can still make an impaact even when cease to exist. Thats MAGIC - Thats Time Travel.

... and POOF just like that . something that was nothing is now something. Science would tell you that's impossible... and it is... unless you use Magic!!

(or Photoshop in my case)

Photography, some would argue, is not an art form. Some would say it's the newest kid on the block and that photographers will one day (and soon) be replaced with robots and AI and anyone with an iPhone.

Photography is the oldest art form. Think Big Picture. The camera is just the newest in a long list of instruments used to convey to others a simple message. From fingers sketches in the sand, cave paintings, stone carvings... The fundamental message:
I was here
I existed
I mattered