Birds in Flight

© 2011 Constance Hobbs. All rights reserved.

© 2011 Constance Hobbs. All rights reserved.

Today is my birthday and these birds that I recently shot seem to reflect how I am feeling. Life is such a constant flux of experiences. Holding on to any of them represents, to me, a lack of freedom. I don't think it's a question of memory but of holding on to those memories that's confining. Freedom is in letting go. The interesting part, the scary part, or the exciting part, depending on how one looks at it, is the unknown. What's ahead and around the corner. The human experience is a mystery. Trying to figure it out is futile. How can one understand the unknown? How can one have a relationship with it? Everything about us is the known. Our memory and past knowledge. I guess the issue of faith and religion comes into play here. Is the religious experience really a relationship with the unknown or a projection of ourselves and a need for security? Going with the flow as these birds do, naturally, easily, I think is at least one answer to happiness.