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and now the project is over... I can shoot photos for fun again. I've finished my first paying photography job, and the last few weeks have been processing photos in my dreams at night
"Know when to put something aside. One of life's great lessons lies in knowing how to refuse, and it is even more important to refuse yourself, both to businesss and to others. There are certain inessential activities -moths of precious time- and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing. To be prudent, it isn't enough not to meddle in other people's business: you must also keep them from meddling in yours. Don't belong so much to others that you stop belonging to yourself. You shouldn't abuse your friends, or ask them for more than they give on their own initiative. All excess is vice, especially in your dealing with others. With this judicious moderation you will stay in the good graces of others and keep their esteem; and propriety, which is precious, will not be worn away. Retain your freedom to care passionately about the best, and never testify against your own good taste. ~Baltazar Gracian