Remember this while hiding from the camera

Mamakatspokane

A great reminder! I try to let people take them and most importantly I try not to delete them! I don't have to share them but Heaven forbid something happens, my kids can have them. I regret not taking more prego pics Those days were gone so fast!

kelly_c_77

Love this post!

seltzermint555

That was beautiful.

Koldnomore

Thanks for the reminder. My mom is also a hider and I don't have many pictures of her either.

LVCeltGirl

Thank you for posting that. I also am inspired to quit avoiding the camera. With an early family Christmas celebration coming up, I plan to get lots of pictures of me and my son (which means to not avoid my sister and her camera).

bellesouth18

What an amazing article, Hoss. Thanks for passing it along.

I have to admit that I'm guilty on all counts. And I have to admit that when I look at my daughter's wedding photos, the shame that I feel in ruining them still haunts me to this day, 5 years later. I feel the same way about all of the photos with me in them.

I'm thinner now, and one of the inspirations on my profile is to look good in photographs. I'm working on that inspiration and will not hide any more.

qtgonewild

Kate814

This isn't about weight, but rather the comment you made about seeing yourself as different than others see you... Has anyone watched the video of the FBI (i believe) sketch artist who has a woman describe herself and sketches her (he can't see her at the time) and has a stranger who met the woman briefly describe her... in each case the strangers described the woman more beautifully, and more accurately than the woman described herself. I can't seem to find the video now, but if you do you should watch it... people can be too hard on themselves, and everyone is beautiful.

chatogal

I think you are speaking to me....I kept hiding in photos all the while thinking "my children and gorgeous grandson wont care about this when I am gone all they will want then is a pictorial memories of me"...easy to say to oneself...difficult to act upon tho :ohwell:

Mischievous_Rascal

Gee...thanks for making me cry at work...

And thank you for posting this.

mmm_drop

Thank you for reposting this!

I hid from the camera for years and because of it not a single picture exists of me and a dear friend that passed away. Now, I just snap away and let others do the same!

Hopelessone

Thank you for posting this, I am always shying away from the camera and threatening my husband when he tries to take a picture. I never really looked at it this way, I will TRY to change my thinking

IAMWORTHIT14

This is a great reminder! My mom gave us little photo albums for Christmas one year to share the pictures of the vacation we had gone on that summer. I saw photos of everyone else frolicking and laughing and playing in the beach, and all of my pictures are me on the couch like a lump. I realize that I wasted an entire vacation at the beach! I vowed right then and there that not only was I going to get healthy for myself, I was going to book another vacation at another beach and make darn sure I was right out there with everyone laughing and frolicking. Life is too danged short to waste hanging out on the couch! :drinker:

in_the_stars

"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."
David Hume

Nice post.

ntimmons48

Awesome post. What Kate said above is true too... the Dove commercial. I watched it on FB the other night and it literally makes me cry because it is so true.