This evening my friend Anastasia came over to look at Lightroom…two hours later we decided that it was a night of hanging out and not shop talk and we resigned the photog chat to another day. We have so much fun talking and being together because we have – as we discussed tonight – similar interests but totally different back grounds and cultures. Isn’t it amazing to see how you can grow up in a totally different way from someone but end up having a lot in common and think the same things are ridiculously awesome and beautiful, or awful and outrageous, or funny? Ana and her husband Jeremy are awesome, we talked about how they were the emo/punk kids in high school who grew up to be the awesome trendy, creative, hipster couple. I love it! She is super creative and is one of those lovely people who is always listening to some cool indie band or reading a sweet blog and actually doing a diy project that she pinned. I told her that being her friend is educational for me, in a cool way of course. (We were actually looking at things on her Pinterest, my Facebook, Flickr, and other fun places while hanging out…friendship in the age of technology – though I will say that this moment was preceded by at least an hour of just talking with no computer involved.)
We had a nice chat, some tea & hot chocolate, a couple of these divine flour-less chocolate cookies that she made for our Artist Way party in December and I hoarded and froze to have as treats later, yeah I’m weird like that, they tasted every bit as good warm from the microwave! I love being friend with people who encourage me to be fully myself and fully creative and passionate about things like typography, good blogs, pretty things, and rad pictures.
Do you surround yourself with people who inspire and encourage you? Fellow like-hearted ones who spur you on to be who you want to be? Are you running the race with community? I love I’m seeing that more and more in my life, it is absolutely worth the investment of time and intentionality to build relationships with people who make you want to be yourself.
Anastasia is also a photographer and blogger, you can see some of her visual goodness on her blog Living In Color.
