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When Time Stands Stagnant
Max H
Student
Los Angeles
Contest Year: 2025
Honorable Mention
Description:
I want you to think of a moment when time stands stagnant. Nothing else matters except for your passion. Complete tunnel vision for your craft. Where everything else fades into a background and you're focused on your art. When the lines separating your life and your art blur and you can fly while still and soar while stationary. Now I don't know what that is for you, but for me that's soccer and nothing brings me more joy than soccer does. Shooting along a mirror I was able to create a reflective effect which emphasizes that in that moment of joy, nothing matters but that moment. And in addition with color grading to emphasize an intense exuberance, joy as it is to me is encapsulated. And so now if you have that moment inside your mind, that tiny slice in time where nothing else matters except your passion, your joy, your everything, ask yourself this... How long has it been? How long since you engulfed yourself in that one passion that you've been meaning to get back to but just can't find the time. That one hobby that you saw online and was dying to try but life came barging in and swept it to the wayside. If I can leave you with anything it's this. Don't wait. Don't say, "Oh I'll do it soon" because time rarely stands stagnant and then "soon" turns to "eventually" and "eventually" turns to "only time will tell" and then it does tell... and your time is up. So don't wait for joy to catch up with your life and make it catch up to you.

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