After I started working on my 30-day challenge, I realised that I began to understand things from a new angle, which is far more interesting. I gradually began to dig through the facts and look for the reasons behind the common results. Maybe it is another kind of observing skill that photography taught me.
There is a lovely calendar in my room. Every page of it has a singular painting, and the bottom of the painting is a profound sentence. I stuck it on the wall in my dorm and used a little clip to hold all the used pages. The last day of every month is the day to start a new page. I would usually jump on my drawer and revealed the next month carefully. I kneeled in front of the calendar seriously, as a believer praying in the church. This Thursday was a big day for my routine fair. I did everything as usual, and then I just stopped there, and stared at that brand new May page on my calendar. “ You need to let the little things that would ordinarily born you suddenly thrill you.” Isn’t that inspiring? I thought of my plain life and how I complain about it, and then I told myself it was exactly what I needed—to feel the thrill. After that, I jumped down to the floor and kept doing my homework. So boring. You might think I will be telling a story about how I came to the realisation of working hard and fighting for my future. The truth is, I did not came back to my desk and sink into the homework gift pack teachers prepared for me. Instead, I kept kneeling there and something else suddenly caught my mind.
“How could it inspire me?” I asked myself. “Why would I be inspired by such an ordinary sentence?” Imagine that, one day you received an email from your history teacher. You opened it and found out he asked you to do a reading about the scientists after WW2. You quickly read to the last paragraph, and then this sentence appeared as a part of the memoir of one of the scientists. How would you react? For me, the answer is definitely nothing. It is because as a literate human being, there are hundreds of similar informations waiting for me to absorb everyday. I read books, do homework, google the questions and view the internet over and over again since I had the ability to look for the information independently. My brain is bored with this typical pattern. You understand what I am talking about? Art is the easiest way to extract the information out and arrange it into a form. What inspired me? It was actually not the old sentence on my calendar, but the painting that was regarded as the back ground. Look at the photo, colourful flowers and exuberant grass combined to the classic Spring. It implied the rebirth, fighting, hope, and everything connected to the word “start”. When I saw the sentence, my brain automatically began to work on building up a bridge of the images in front of my eyes. Therefore,although the sentence help me think rationally, it was actually the painting and colours that stimulated the emotional parts in my brain, and the combination of both of them finished the whole inspiring process in less than one second. Isn’t that amazing? Have you ever wonder about how images affect your life? The sale board in the market, the receptive patterns in the TV shows, or the colour schemes of your cosmetics, they are capable of controlling your brain before you even realise it!
A ordinary Thursday night, I stared at my calendar, as looking through a masterpiece that combined with art and psychology and involved with the human history. I was excited, for the improvement that the endless writing and thinking of my 30-day challenge gave me.
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