Tag: fiction

I have been looking through old pictures and videos, and I’m so glad I did it. I started out deleting videos that are meaningless and taking up space, and ended up finding videos I forgot about or shot with intention of editing and never did. I used to take pictures of EVERYTHING, especially when I got my first 35mm digital camera for my 16th birthday nineteen years ago. Somewhere along the way, I started taking less and less photos. Maybe because it got really expensive to print them, and they just get lost in albums online. It also got to the point where I’d take so many pictures of everyone and everything around me, but no one bothered to include me in pictures, as well. We also have to pay for every little thing, such as storage, editing programs, etc.

I never fully stopped taking pictures, but they became more limited. I know this is because of the people I surrounded myself with throughout the last 10 years. This year is different, I have put myself first for the first time in my life and things are coming together. Finding these precious videos and photos have just reminded me that I need to start taking pictures again. My phone is all dogs, nature, and selfies alone. I used to have so many pictures WITH people, but people don’t really like to stop to take pictures anymore. There’s always that fear that the way we look will be exposed.

WELP
GUESS WHAT?

You look the way you look, and you need to come to terms with that. In fact, your parents, your significant other/partner, your best friends… have all seen you at your worst and still love you. Every picture of you that is taken is how you look, and what people literally see when they’re with you. Stop being so ashamed to look anything other than “perfect and flawless” when we all have flaws that make us unique, who we are, and dang lovable!

IMPERFECTION IS PERFECTION.
STEP INTO WHO YOU TRULY ARE.
I LOVE YOU JUST THE WAY YOU ARE.
I SEE YOU. I HEAR YOU. I LOVE YOU.