I have come to the point in my life where I must embark upon the journey of taking senior pictures. This adventure, the epitome of senior year, is an awkard yet exciting ritual.
Exciting because of the obvious; it’s all about you for a little while. Awkward because how in the world do you find senior picture ideas that you like without feeling like the girls
in the examples are so much prettier than you. I tend to think, “I could never pull that off,” or “I don’t have the right hair, or face, or eyes, or nose, or awesome lips.” You think
you have to look like those girls to have good senior pictures. But I’ve come to the realization that thats a completely false assumption for me to make. Yeah, my nose is large and sticks
off my face, yeah my lips are small and not luxuriously volumptious like the models and yeah, last year I cut my luscious locks off. But aren’t senior pictures about ME? Isn’t that the point?
Aren’t they supposed to be a representation of my beauty, my individuality and just who I am? Why should I look at photoshopped pictures of half-starved girls and wish that I looked as fake as
they do? I shouldn’t and I’ve decided I won’t. I am my own beautiful and I am my own woman. God made us each gorgeously different. I won’t waste my time on false pride and vain attributions
when I can be awesome, imperfect me. And you shouldn’t either. Somebody has to say it, so I’ll do it. Love yourself so that others can see your uniqueness, too.