Do you like having your picture taken? Are you photogenic? Do you think you are? Whatever your response, I'll wager there are times when you hate the resulting picture. We all have a certain amount of vanity when it comes to our appearance (some to greater or lesser degrees). Typically, we like being shown in the best light, and to leave a good impression. Nothing wrong with that. However, I remember some times when people act especially paranoid about even seeing a camera, and that's weird..Isn't it funny how we don't like hearing ourselves recorded and played back? Or, how our handwriting isn't good when we demonstrate our ability? And, those who judge our performances simply haven't caught us at our best. Yup. Life isn't kind. It's said pictures don't lie, but they also don't give any context or background either. Unless you're recording video before and after, then the fall into the pool is a single moment in time--and doesn't show the filthy dog rushing out and tripping you.
So we have Photoshop, and a vast array of ways to artificially touch up an image, which makes pictures pretty unreliable anymore. You probably have noticed how beauty pictures don't actually reflect reality? That's because ideals of beauty are hilariously out of pace with human physiology. So, there's no need to flinch at our own pictures. Yes, maybe your hair isn't perfect, or the sun is making you squint, or a fly just landed on your nose, but it's really you and there's nothing wrong with it.
(--and we'll still laugh when we see it--)
- M
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