I was watching Finding Forrester on the flight back to Chicago, I have seen this a couple of times but today I noticed a part of the movie that seemed to speak to me more than ever.
In an exchange between Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) and William Forrester (Sean Connery), a heated Wallace questioned Connery on why he remained a recluse and why he refused to share his works with the world.
Interestingly enough a few hours back, I had been debating with myself on whether I’d share all the pictures I took on my recent trip abroad. I’d been having this back and forth with myself for awhile now, this just happened to be the most recent one. I am involved with social networks and sharing is quite common on these sites. Yet I feel some sort of resentment when I do, maybe that’s too strong of a word but I have come to realize that sometimes in sharing your experience with others some confuse it with showing off. It’s a shame this is the case, the intent is to encourage not discourage.
I have so much to offer or at least I believe I do and it saddens me when I have to think about what I put out there and whether or not to do so, in hopes of not offending anyone.
I guess I need to stop over thinking the issue because even in Finding Forrester, William comes to realize that he is doing the world a disservice by not sharing his works with the world.
There are people out there who tell me they like my works be it writing or pictures. Even though I may not know them personally, they let me know that there is in fact some type of audience out there checking out for me.
So as I stare out the plane window (I always try to get those), I know the pics of the beautiful snow mountains below will be going up on my picture blog in a few, there’s someone out there besides me that is going to appreciate such.
