Since I started regularly and consciously doing street photography, I feel I am in my prime the whole time.
I wrote this text on the 20th of February, 2024. When I was walking in frigid cold (it was 7 degrees Celsius [44.6 degrees Fahrenheit]) during the evening walk, the phrase, “The whole time in my prime,” appeared in my mind. I have been doing street photography on Warsaw’s streets since October 2015. It’s been almost nine and a half years of this tremendous activity. The more I do it, the more I desire to do it. While walking and taking photos throughout all these years, adding intermittent fasting since December 2023 and exposing my body to cold (also by taking cold showers since April 2021), I realized I became a robust human.
It is not the case that I am a demigod.
No. I still have many moments of a lousy mood or doubt about practically everything. I haven’t become immortal who will move mountains thanks to unearthly power. No. I simply feel that the last years of my life are one of them I could name I was (and I hope I will be for the following years) in my prime. Undoubtedly, also stopped drinking alcohol at the beginning of 2018, and eating sweets since Christmas 2020 helped me to become in my prime.
I think most people have a period in their lives when they are in their prime.
I suppose this remarkable period is during their adolescence for most of them. Of course, there are many exceptions. Still, I think those who devote their lives to eating, drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes won’t have too long in their prime period. I do not want to be one of them. That’s why I am fasting and avoiding processed food and drink and do not smoke any shit at all.
