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Oh, I had such an amazing discovery today. It was heartwarming, as it was humbling, when I discovered how beautiful and exuberant the world is in my little enzo’s curious eyes. He has such an amazingly candid  view of people and of anything animate and inanimate about him….so unlike the gloomy, almost despondent view from behind my very own lens.

While I capture moments as they are, my enzo captures his with honest fervor, tilting his lens here…and then a little there… if only to give an otherwise mundane moment a refreshing, simply delightful twist.

At Starbucks this afternoon, he politely asked for my digital camera. He warmed up oh so easily, hugging the teeny weeny gadget like he has been a pro all his 7 young years. He only had to learn the "zooming-in-and-out-trick," and then he was snapping away, wryly aiming at his dad, myself, the guard,my coffee….and much to my amusement, himself!

Haha, he is my little boy after all! He takes after me on a lot of things (hopefully, i pray, not my despondency when he grows up), like pouting and keeping mum at some corner when hurt, chattering incorrigibly when excited, passionately argumentative when provoked, and  just recently, carefully perfecting self-portraits when caught in possession of anything with a shutter and a viewfinder!

In his eyes today,  I found my much needed bright beginning.  As he proudly … and cheerfully…. shared his random little conquests, he taught me something embarassingly plain and simple … "Here mama, keep only those that are beautiful."

My enzo’s right … One just has to go back to basics - to accept that while we intend to take only beautiful snapshots, there will always be not so beautiful ones… those that can easily be thrown away…that is, if we want them thrown away. We can choose to keep our ugly moments … the same way we keep the beautiful ones… or we can, without much complication, choose to discard the unacceptable ones in favor of the really good ones.

For my little enzo, the choice was indeed plain and simple … and much to my surprise ..a remarkably very unceremoniously e-a-s-y one to make.

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