Personal Challenge

Personal challenges are important. They help you to grow, and if set right, they can change your perspective on the world around you. I intend to change my perspective, or at least enhance it.

When I was younger and more scholarly, I would ride the subway home from high school everyday. The 3 stops between Sheppard and Eglinton station would span about 15 minutes during rush hour traffic. They were often my favorite part of the day. Besides the obvious thrill of being a visible minority in language and skin color, I was always awe struck by the faces and mannerisms of the people around me. Old, Young, smelly or dressed to the nines, these people were diverse and lived lives I could not even begin to conceive.

There is something about the unknown that is thrilling, especially when analyzing people. I can never help myself from trying to imagine the lives of the people we spend so little of our time with, yet see so often.

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So here it goes,

I have a plan.

This summer I am hoping to publish a biography once a week.
I will aim to publish someone I do not know very well or someone I have met within the month.

I will take photos, I will spend time with them finding out about what they do, where they live, what they want out of life. And I will publish it here, in my little corner of the interweb.


I challenge you to do the same.