If you can love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.
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Brandon Stanton
Brandon Stanton (born March 1, 1984) is an American best selling author, photographer, and blogger. He is known as author of best selling Humans of New York book, as one of Time's "30 Under 30 People Changing The World", and the founder of Humans of New York, a popular photojournalistic work that has over 17.8 million likes on Facebook and around 5.7 million followers on Instagram as of late August 2016. Since 2010, Stanton has taken hundreds of portraits of people living and working primarily in New York City, accompanied by bits and bobs of conversations about their lives. 2Life and work Stanton grew up in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, where he completed his schooling from The Walker School in 2002. He majored in history at the University of Georgia. In 2010, he bought a camera while working as a bond trader in Chicago, and started taking photographs in downtown Chicago on the weekends. When he lost his job a short time later, he decided to pursue photography full-time. Moving to New York City, he set out to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers and plot their portraits on a map of the city, surviving on unemployment checks to "almost pay rent" and borrowing money from friends and family. Eventually, he moved his photographs to the Humans of New York Facebook page, which he started in November 2010. After posting a photo of a woman including a quote from her, he soon began adding captions and quotes to his photographs, which eventually evolved into full interview
I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.
If you can love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.
The eye doesn’t see. The brain sees. The eye just transmits. So what we see isn’t only determined by what comes through the eyes. What we see is affected by our memories, our feelings, and by what we’ve seen before.
People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.
If you can love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.