{"id":1143,"date":"2025-05-16T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photograf-in-two-worlds.com\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:02:30","slug":"155-balancing-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photograf-in-two-worlds.com\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"155* Balancing it out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Picture, if you will, a noble, grand, imaginary scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two pans, one on each side.<\/span><\/p>\n

One hangs low, nearly scraping the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other, completely off balance, is jutting high up into the air.<\/span><\/p>\n

What could possibly be causing such an imbalance?<\/span><\/p>\n

What is this symbolism intending to illustrate?<\/span><\/p>\n

What <\/span>even happened<\/span>?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Well – strictly speaking – nothing<\/em>. And that\u2019s precisely the point. It\u2019s the first little nod to our opening metaphor.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the low-hanging pan rest many of \u201cmy Saturdays\u201d\u2014those days when I occasionally ponder which subject or theme to pluck from the overflowing buffet of possible inspirations.<\/span><\/p>\n

And on the other pan? A weightless <\/span>nothingness<\/span> – the rather uncool byproduct of my unstructured nature and forgetfulness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Something Sarah, ever so unintentionally, reminded me of just last Saturday – when she indirectly mentioned that it hadn\u2019t been <\/span>her<\/span> turn for the blog\u2026 but that it was actually <\/span>mine<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arrrrghh.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the very least, I did manage to take three low-resolution snapshots on my phone that day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mostly just to show Sarah – and maybe the tourism board of Rhode Island – how fondly I still wear the memories I brought back with me some time ago. But now those three pictures play a way more important role: to act as the foundation for a modest attempt to balance out two things at once:<\/span><\/p>\n

First, that reoccurred, aforementioned forgetfulness.<\/span><\/p>\n

And second to finally write some light-hearted blog post again – one that’s not dealing with any of my usual, more or less subtle life philosophies or thoughts about human purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it happened that I ultimately came up with the following, pretty nice idea:<\/span><\/p>\n

Because that little snapshot happend right after I slipped into that merch-shirt after another day in and at the indoor pool and because swimming and diving still remains a blissfully simple source of joy in my life, I thought that it would be wonderfully silly and banal – and yet, somehow not at all – to share my very personal list of my most favourite and fun underwater diving moves with any curious readers! So, finally – here we go:<\/span><\/p>\n