When does one know or better yet, when does one stop.

I love attention!  Yes mga ditse, my friends will tell you that.  I’m usually loud at parties, and when we go out I usually am the one telling jokes and making people laugh.  Geminis are like that.  They can’t stand silence.

Like my regular readers probably know by now, I have taken up a new hobby.  PHOTOGRAPHY.   I was drawn into it because I saw pictures posted by a new acquaintance on Flickr.  He’s not only a great photographer, he is a great artist as well.  He had taken on a project called “365″ where he takes pictures (mainly of  himself) in different lightings, situations and color – for 365 days.  That simply means everyday since February of 2008.  Okay, he’s a little behind but he has posted over 200 pictures already and they look awesome and he has lit a fire under me.

I was at a party last Saturday (was not invited but decided to go anyway).  I was in the kitchen fixing myself something to drink (have you ever tried Absolut Mango and Red Bull? YOU MUST!), and this guy started talking to me.  I don’t know how our conversation ended up in photography but it did.  He is a helicopter pilot for one of the news agencies in New York and he is pretty much accompanied by photographers and videographers.  He picked up photography through them and has taken it seriously now.   I thought he’s cute but I always think that of people who communicate well.  I enjoyed  my conversation with him as well.

We got into talking and I told him about my spur of interest in photography and he gave me some tips, his account on flickr and blah blah blah.  Yet, there’s one subject I couldn’t stop talking about.  And that is Eric… the subject of my wild camera shots over the weekend.  We were talking photography here, but I can’t stop talking about Eric.

This is a bad sign I think.  I am in that same cycle again.  Liking the people who are unreachable… (under everyone else’s standards but mine!).  My friends notice if I’m finding someone interesting because I can’t shut my mouth about that person.  They already told me… “You are back in the same game again!”   “Na-ah!”, I said.  “This is a good friendship.  I like him a lot.”   Yet, deep inside I do believe that they are right.   In the past two weeks, he has become “the apple” of my eye.

When will I say to myself, “STOP!”?  It could be tonight, tomorrow or next week.  But right now – I don’t  want to.  Why? Hmmmmm…

Now, you know why.