The Perfect Picture

Why do we crave something that must be so perfect and not something that is actually in the moment and real?

We have the ability now to retake picture after picture to create something perfect behind the lens. While these types of photos have their place in the world, we have now begun to miss out on the real moments in life captured in a still shot at that given second, we can delete moments and recreate them in seconds. We have all had the “oh, delete that I look terrible” picture, meanwhile did our parents have that option or did they take the photo without knowing what the final result would be? They had no choice once the picture was taken, the moment was captured, and a real photo was made.

We are living in a world with so many moments being missed because we are too busy trying to find that perfect picture for Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, whatever the social media platform may be. We are so busy trying to create moments, we are losing ourselves in the process, losing who we truly are as individuals because of the vanity we are all trying to create. Does this make us better or is it just another way to not truly be who we really are?

Besides fulfilling our own self-worth by making these fake photos what are we truly accomplishing? What standards are we truly setting for ourselves? We can’t be perfect all the time, but the world is turning into a place that the only pictures we post are of those moments in time that we are perfect. If you look back on a family photo album there is rarely a perfect picture, and everyone smiled and laughed, and the photo got put in the album anyway. Now go through any popular social media person’s album and you are likely not to see anything but perfect photos, and it is all on us that we have set that standard and made it to be acceptable and basically what is now expected of us.

Why are we doing this to ourselves? Why are we creating this pressure to be perfect, for of all things, a photo for social media, why do we need it to be perfect? It is this world that we are creating for ourselves that is making the life we are living in so unrealistic, and it is causing so many more problems than we can ever even comprehend. Body issues of all kinds, second guessing are own true beauty, creating so much self-doubt, all because of a world of fake photos that aren’t even reality. When are we going to realize this, and take back what we truly loved about photos in the first place? Capturing the true moments of life, the photos with someone’s eyes closed, the hysterically laughing face, hell, even the damn photo with a butt that has cellulite. What is it going to take for us to actually realize that is what real life is?

We need to stop trying to create what should just be natural, men and woman need to stop making comparisons to these photos of the perfect body in the perfect lighting with the perfect angles, we need to learn we are all individuals and that is what makes us truly beautiful people.

Stop trying to create a reality that doesn’t exist and start living and loving the reality that does!