I can no longer use Photoshop. Just the very basics I remember, but none of the fancy advanced stuff I've learned in college. It's all gone. I'm hoping to retrieve it from the back of my mind at some point. It's embarrassing to have a Photographer's diploma in one of my drawers - God knows where, in between a stack of manuals and scrap paper most probably - and not being able to turn a simple path into a mask.
Well whatever, at least for today.

Today I have been studying Bach Flower Remedies. Yes, that's right. Those small bottles with flower extracts you've all heard of, but never really trusted. Maybe you've used Rescue Remedy once before going to an exam? That ring a bell, yeah?

To be honest with you, the philosophy behind this discipline is incredibly fascinating. It delves into the human mind so deeply that it makes you feel uncomfortable merely studying the different remedies. The motives that lie at the base of our decisions, our need for or aversion to exchanging thoughts with others, social contact or a tendency towards withdrawal from social contexts, eagerness for the new or fear of change, all are subtly defined by personality and it is extremely important to position yourself as a good listener when treating someone to accurately define the source, the root cause that stands in the way of balance. Unlike what I thought before, this is not just some flower pleasantry, not some playing about with little expensive bottles. Edward Bach was an admirable man with sharp observational skills and mastering his remedies is not for the quickly disinterested. We will be given this course all throughout our naturotherapeutic education.
Above all it gives a good insight into the people that surround you as well as an elevated sense of self-awareness.

And here's a picture to go with my writing. Pictures are important. Not everyone likes to read random rants (I usually skip those too on unknown blogs). Not that this picture is particularly interesting. FULL STOP.