Fredric Chopin
Jim Morrison
Meeting people who are living and "meeting" those who are dead are both suprisingly intriguing, for different reasons of course. I will focus on the living later, but the deceased are their own focus. There is something about visiting the gravesite of someone who was on top of the world and worshiped by so many at one time when I wasn't even alive. To think that someone who had acquired such greatness and achievement is now incapacitated, unable to show their greatness is quite a startling realization. At that point in my life when the photo was taken, when standing over Chopin's grave, I realize that I could accomplish more than he could. What does this mean for the rest of us? Although these specific men are now in the ground, what significant accomplishments can any of us say we have done? Not all of us will be world-renowned. No matter how good we are, not all of us will be publically recognized. What is important is that one day, someone will stand in front of us and look down, thanking us for all we did to make their world a little happier.
All photos taken by me at Pere Lachaise Cemmetary. Paris, France
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