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Ali Rıza Babaoğlan
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The Clock of Life

Photographed · Tsavo Park, Kenya

Early morning on the plains of Tsavo National Park, Kenya

This is Tsavo, early in the day, before the heat settled in. Out there, time keeps its own pace and pays no attention to ours.

I used to think fulfilment was something waiting further down the road. I’ve come to believe it sits in the present instead — in the passing of an ordinary moment, if I slow down enough to feel it.

Hard seasons still arrive and cast their shadow. Light finds a way through anyway, the way a small joy surfaces in the middle of a difficult stretch. Time is relative; it carries a different meaning for each of us.