Meet: Sanity Found :-)

Sanityfound hails from South Africa.  I first “bumped” into her over on Amber’s blog   Don’t let this picture of her four arms scare you..she  had 2 of them surgically removed this past year so she’s  someone you would feel comfortable walking in the mall with.   She’s full of creative energy, a VERY tender heart and  here she is in her own words:

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Thanks DM for giving me the honour of doing a guest post on your blog, I am truly humbled and words fail me.  As you know that mere fact is a miracle, I am one with many words especially when excited!

Who is SanityFound? I am a mystery to most and the truth is that no one has ever guessed my age right so I’m not about to give that game away. As you can see from the photo I am a bit of a strange one with four arms, over sized heart, wicked laugh and twinkles in my eye.  For me life is for living, experiencing, growing and loving.

Do you have a camera? Any old camera, it doesn’t have to be one of those fancy ones that break your back when you lift it, point-and-shoot, even a cellphone/mobile will do.  When you lift it up to your eye you see what the lens before you sees.  Hold it up to your eye long enough and you will start to notice things that you wouldn’t have seen otherwise. 

The world comes alive, colours seem brighter, fresher, more real.  If you look at the grass you will see the definition in the blades of grass, you will see the colours and the little hairs on the backs.  Before it was just a green grass, now it is individually defined, now it is angles, colours and beauty.  Flowers are the same, look at a flower through the lens of a camera and you will notice the little speckles of pollen, again the colours will seem brighter and the shape of the petals really jump out at you.  You will see. 

This of course is all dependant on the lens of the camera being clean.  I once whipped out my camera for a nice landscape shot and the day suddenly became very cloudy.  I made statements to that effect with the one eye through the viewfinder and the other squeezed shut.  Yes, the day was a wonderfully sunny one and needless to say I don’t live that one down too easily.

When we look through the camera lens in life, what do you see? Do you stop to look through it every now and then or do you go through life not stopping to have a quick peek at the beauty before your eyes?

Do you stop to smell that daisy on the side of the road (that a dog has not spotted of course) or that rose in the neighbours garden? Do you just sit in the chair holding that fresh cup of coffee beneath your nose breathing in its rich aroma? Do you ever stop to breathe it all in?

Leave our lens sitting long enough it has a tendency to become just another dust collector.  The lens gets dusty and scratched, mists over and obstructs our view to the real world, to the 3D world that we forget is there.

Stop, breathe, smell, see, live, love, laugh, give and experience life

You can read more from Sanity found  at : http://sanityfound.wordpress.com/