I Took a Bad Picture.....
No one likes a bad picture. Not of anyone else but specially of themselves. (I suppose there are those that are indifferent but majority don’t like em! Lol!)
So what do we do....we snap over and over and over and over again. Selfie after selfie. Position after position. Just to get the right angle. The right light. The right blah blah blah! Wasting too much iCloud storage! Lol! Just to get a good snapshot!
Trust me! No judgement! If those previous words describe anybody... it’s me! 😂
And it’s honest. You’re just trying to get the right look to represent you.
But truth is....no one picture can give a full and complete view of who you wholly are! That just captures that specific frame in time and space (shout out to Christian Burroughs https://open.spotify.com/album/0k4WTZq0Hk5nf1unn4i05v).
Now I could go in on how much we do actually manipulate pictures we take of ourselves to make ourselves look better.... but that’s not what I’m getting to. That’s a whole other convo!
But what about that bad picture? The one someone took of you and didn’t give u a chance to take again? Or maybe you didn’t even get a chance to see it after they snapped it to even ask for another one. (U know we good for that!). Or maybe it was a group pic...or a candid pic.... or the dreaded “caught you in the middle of eating or talking” pic! 😢
Oh and don’t let em post it to the gram! 😰😳🥴😫😑😢😤😠🤬
All them emojimotions be goin through your head! Next thing you know, you’ve sent a text to a friend, emailed an event promoter, or even DM’d the church photographer that caught you mid snot crying ugly singer face worship.......telling them to please remove that pic! Even threatening legal actions if not! (I don’t know who that’s for but I feel in my heart I’m talking to someone! *in my best super spiritual preacher voice* 😉😂)
Listen, I get it! But calm down. If u scroll up you’ll see what I said earlier...
“....truth is....no one picture can give a full and complete view of who you wholly are!”
I feel like this about our lives. Regardless of our good takes or mistakes, no one moment or snapshot tells the whole story! It just doesn’t! So we’ve got to stop being tormented by our individual moments...as if they’re the end of the world.... and make new ones! Take new pictures! Make new poses.... and learn to be okay with those not so good ones! They’re all a part of the plan! The grand scheme collage will turn out to represent you better than you thought... if you just let it be! Truthfully if you allow your mind to be at rest with it all, you’d have a resting face (👀😂that’s funny!!!!) Shoot it’ll even make you more stealth at catching the church photographer when he’s about to get you....
I bet all those pictures come out either cool or better than cool! But never bad! 😉✌️
