I’ve always loved taking photographs. Something so soothing
about capturing your perspective from a moment in time to have for always. To
me photos always reminded me that in life your perspective is everything. How
we chose to look at something changes the way we feel about what surrounds us.
I always found it a reminder to see the good and the beauty in the worst of
times and in the ugliest places. It was a way to remember that in life you need
the darkest night to see the stars shine at their finest.
In our society today photographs are easy and quick and
usually thoughtless. They are banal. But more than that they have become
insidious, filtering perspective to project perfection that does not exist.
They scream to the world I have it all figured out - I am winning. Hence
everyone else must be losing if their life doesn’t reflect the happiness and
perfection carefully curated for social media.
I see so many friends and strangers who feel like failures.
They are lost trying to find the life they think they should be able to
achieve. The life they see other living. The perfection that is portrayed. The
perfection that you see, because of the angle of the camera. The perfection
from the selection of a moment, that does not portray its full surroundings.
I still love my beautiful photographs, and the perspective
they offer on how I force myself to see the beauty around me. But believe me
when I say my life is not perfect. For every perfect photo I can show, I could
take a dozen of the chaos and mess that is my daily life. My daily dumpster
fire. So to combat the social media trend of only showing you the best, I
propose to share with you my worst. To show you we are all the same. None of us
is perfect. None of us has it all figured out. And the most important part – in
the end we are all in this together, there is so much more that unifies us than
separates us.
So enjoy the chaos, and know you are not alone.
#dailydumpster
Photo - this is my box of "emotional baggage" that has been sitting on my hall tree for well over a month (insert 3 months) that I have yet to take care of and I feel bad about myself every time I pass it, which is at least 20 times a day. #dailydumpster
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