Life in Silver Spring

For the latest video challenge we were meant to capture life in Silver Spring. For the first time we were allowed to partner up. I worked with Jasper and we focused on the proximity to Washington D.C. and the diversity as some of the best parts about our area.

In the Dawn of Death

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose." (Kahlil Gibran).

In this respect, the thorns of death are sharp enough to turn most into pessimists while the flower of life passed, is beautiful enough to turn pessimists into optimists. This beauty, in my opinion, is the power of unity.There is nothing greater than the power to bring people together, and in a world that is so firm and divided, death has the ability to break the walls that separate us as people. At a funeral, politics don't mater, wars are irrelevant, all the worlds conflicts are out the window. In that moment, all that is important is the good that has come from any particular person. Funerals are not about dreading death, but rather celebrating life. Just as it has the power to sharpen the thorns of a rose, death is capable of brightening the flower; the power to turn pessimists into optimists.

In this sense, your life will never be as important as when you lose it. If someone were ever able to touch everyone on earth, in the dawn of his/her death, the world would for once be in a state of perfect harmony.