Layar #12 - The Secret Life of Mitty Walter

On the Himilayan Mountains, hours of waiting to take a good shot of the snow leopard...

Sean O'Connell: They call the snow leopard the ghost cat. Never lets itself be seen.

Walter Mitty: Ghost cat.

Sean: Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

(silent moment...)

Walter: When are you going to take it?

Sean: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.

Walter: Stay in it?

Sean: Yeah. Right there. Right here.

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Strucked right at the heart as the lines were spoken. Two things came to mind:

'Do you consider yourself beautiful? If so, why the spotlights you made on yourself ? '

'Not every thing you cherrish, let alone appreciate and love should be put on camera... much more absurd to be shared on social media.'

then it immediately came to mind of the quotes of Albert Einstein:

'I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.'

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The thing is, as we develope, we tend to forget our past and forget to learn the very essence of it. Too blurred by the mainstream mentality, too caught up with all the attention received.

One day, you will come to realise of how much the heart is contaimenated, of how much it needed to be de-toxed. 

Then, you realise the need to go back to sticks and stones, and learn how to appreciate things like the way it was before.

Yes.

Way way back.

When Abraham had none, but Him to guide, of what to worship, from whom to be loved...

(6:75-79)

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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

They ask for forgiveness, for the beauty borrowed and bestowed upon.