ways we communicate with photos

Disclaimer/Explanation/Whatever/ Just Read This:

This is coming from a super-overthinking person and she might just go overboard, but it is FINE. Also, I am writing this in the middle of a SUPER Boring class, bare with me. 

1st:

I was going through some of my not so old ( like a year back) pictures and I looked so happy in those photos, gleaming and smiling. And I was happy. I was feeling great.

And then I saw pictures of some other people, and they also looked happy. Now. Were they happy while in that moment? Were they smiling just because there was a camera in front of them? Have you ever thought about this? This is super depressing, but it just really seems practical. I don't know.

There was this Bollywood movie, super tragic (how can Saniya not bring Bollywood up), wherein this woman's family is literally falling apart; you know, her husband is having an affair, one of her sons is gay (his mother is not accepting of that), and the other son doesn't have a stable job. All these people were together clicking a family photo with their other relatives (who had no idea about this disastrous situation). The woman tried smiling for the photo, but she couldn't. She was under extreme distress. So she just walked off and told her husband that she can not do the "happy family drama"(even for a photo). Wow dude. Her husband got mad and drove off  in his car and on the other hand the two sons started fighting(physically).

The woman's character is very daring since she has the guts to just say it. She doesn't want to make that one photo a fake memory.

2nd:

Talking of being happy in a photograph, sometimes a person can also despise  them for being that much content. Not just happy but if a person is with all their friends in a photo and if a lonely person look at it, he is going to feel worse about his situation and might even hate that person. If a plus size person looks at a really hot person in a photo, he will hate his body and will also hate that really hot person. Well this is human nature, we want what we don't have, and we dislike the person who has them. Very human. One of the most driving reasons for this "phenomenon" is social media, Instagram and Snapchat etc. As a teenager I've wasted a lot of time on these platforms and I have noticed this happening to myself and to other people.

3rd:

This thought is more of an ending note. I read in a book once that and i quote "If they look prettier than you it does not mean that they are happier than you."

(edit: I know being gay is not bad, I am an ally myself. Well the movie portrayed the mother as very homophobic and found the idea of same gender dates disgusting, it's the mother's character.)

Byeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

By Saniya Sethi

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