the strangeness and complexities of humanity

Fay 2022-04-03 08:01:01

She clearly loved this world, loved life, and the ordinary people in it. She had such a great eye for them and saw them with such tenderness. She captured these vibrant precious moments obsessively like mad, and yet she could not open herself, could not bring herself to share feelings and intimate thoughts with others. She longed for human connections, but she also clinged to independence and freedom stubbornly.
She was a genius who died a lonely death, but she will be remembered. She did make her mark, she left something to this world. She made connections, however briefly, with strangers in the street. We see these precious moments today in her photographs. It is these precious moments that we share with other people that fill up our lives.
It is a way of living. Her chosen way of living. I don't know if it is a blessed or a tragic one. Nobody can tell but herself. But I think even if she lived her chosen way of life, she still felt lonely and scared near the end. We all do.

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