Epiphany at the Lunch Table
by Amanda Rosa
October 2, 2016
What happened this week? Well I had a breakthrough. Sitting at the sticky, round table in the loud cafeteria I took some of the best photos I have ever taken. What a beautiful setting, right? No. Fluorescent lights filled with dead bugs hang from the ceiling and the background of most photos taken in the cafeteria feature friend groups sitting around tables discussing their days.
My epiphany however was quite beautiful. It was like a warm sun ray beaming through the dirty cafeteria window. The people I call my friends are more than just friends. They are my inspiration. They inspire to live my life to the fullest and to have fun while doing that.
“Are you taking my picture?”, my friends asked as I aimed my camera at them in the middle of eating my lunch.
Of course I was. So it wasn’t a nice setting, who cares? My friends made it the best setting in the world at that very moment. They made me feel happy and loved and in that moment, I wanted to capture my emotions, so I had to shoot those pictures. I wanted to bottle up those emotions in my camera so that I could always look at those pictures and feel home.
So in that loud cafeteria, at that sticky table, with the hustle and bustle of people walking in and out of the doors behind our table, I realized that these four people have changed the way I view life. They’ve changed the way I live life. They’ve changed my life for the better, and I could not be more blessed than I am right now with them by my side.