What keeps us looking forward to tomorrow - What keeps us going?

It is our desire and aspiration for a better future to materialise itself into our reality. We all live our lives in pursuit of happiness - we seek pleasure, we avoid pain, this is the experience of living. Of course life is a balance and we should be careful not to take ‘today’ for granted whilst being pre-occupied with a better future.

This philosophy has inspired me to paint ever since I first picked up a paint brush. In whatever I choose to paint, the painting always ends up as a declaration of hope and optimism whether I intended it to be that way or not. This is because my paintings are an extension of my beliefs. The reason I spend my time ‘reminding us of the joys’ that we all have to look forward to is because sometimes in life we lose sight of it -we become bored, dispondent and we can spiral into depression. We forget about the good times and we forget how to enjoy ourselves entirely. I think we are all guilty of this in varying degrees due to the treadmill and the monotony of our everyday routines.

I do not have the solution to depression, but if I can help someone reconnect with what brings them joy in their lives, then I know I have helped in someway. Our happiness depends on how we ‘see’ our world, if we learn to see it from a different perspective - we experience more joy in our everyday,