"Love Letter" story

Date: 24th December, 2015

My love,

     It's been so long since we met. In the first place, I'm sorry dear I abandoned you for about an year. I have been missing you a lot since the day I left you. I never got the chance to tell you that, no matter what happens next I'll never be anything but grateful to you.

     You and I, together, we can make magic. We are a perfect match. I love you because you bring the best out of me. You never give up on me and that's what keeps me going. You are the reason, I knew what beauty is! Your point of view was always right, I envy you for that. I can be myself when I am with you. Even in darkness it was you, who showed me what the world around looks like.

      I've read somewhere that "In French you don't really say I miss you. You say tu me manques which means you'll be missed by me" I love that. Rather than saying I missed you, I need to say you are a part of me, you are essential for my being. Like a man needs a heart, brain and other organs to function, you've become a part of me.

     With that, enough said, I promise, from today I'm not going to leave you. I'm gonna hold you tight and never let go.

Love. Prithvi Gude.

Well, that was too deep. Whom do you think I'm addressing this letter to? People close to me would've got it already. To those who don't know me. This is a letter I'm writing to my camera. ;)   
Well, let me put it this way. As always I like to tell this in the form of a story. Here it goes...

      It was 2013, and we met in a Reliance store. In the process of deciding which camera to buy, I caught this beauty Canon 600D and since then I started looking at the world in a different way. Since then, of course as it was new and interesting, I never stopped clicking. But lately, I've lost the touch. Now a days I can feel my hands shaking when I hold the camera. It's really been part of me and it will be, always.

       To be precise, after an year's gap I feel I'm limping if I don't click. Thanks to the film making course that brought both of us together. Getting closer to my camera was always a motivation. 

Feeling depressed?  Hold your camera.

Feeling happy?        Hold your camera.

Feeling excited?       Hold your camera.

Feel like dancing?     Hold your camera.

Feel like clicking?      Hold your camera.

   There were times I was jealous looking at people with better cameras and  lenses, but never that made me sad. Know why? My camera gave me stories worth sharing. Every now and then when people ask me,"Why don't you click me? I'd like to pose." I simply say- "I'm sorry". For me every thing is a story, every photograph has a story.

I click, that inspires me.

I click, that motivates me.

I click, that shakes me up.

I click, that wakes me up.

I click, that which is weird.

I click, that which I fear.

Hence today, I've decided not to leave it alone anymore.

If I walk, I'm gonna walk with a camera.

If I talk, I'm gonna talk with a photograph.

Thanks to those great people I never cared to know, for this wonderful invention. :P

P.S. It's a wonderful life in the pursuit of happiness. XD

PRITHVI GUDE