As I started posting my photos more and more online, I realized that not only was I capturing moments and emotions from my life, but that there were people viewing my photos who were recognizing in them moments and emotions from their own lives. I started receiving emails thanking me for sharing my photos and my writing.
This sort of reaction really inspired me to continue doing what I was doing. I get emails from strangers telling me about their lives and how certain photos of mine, perfectly captured how they were feeling in an exact moment. I get people sending me emails about dreams they had, or relationships they were in that didn't work out, or naked pictures of themselves that they're too scared to post in public.
This is another reason why I do what I do; to share common experiences with people unable to communicate, or express them themselves, and to encourage them to do so.