Goal #4: Be In Pictures

March 21, 2008 @ 04:15 pm

My partner and I are very much in love and we really enjoy and crave our time together. But we have very few pictures of ourselves together. A lot of that is because we forget to take a camera with us to places. But a bigger reason is the same reason there are actually very few pictures of me in existence at all - I hate to be on camera.

I even get angry when people insist on taking photos of me. It was hard enough for me to take "before" pictures for this journey, let alone unflattering candid shots. And then people insist on taking those candid shots from bad angles, while I'm talking or even worse - eating. And then they post them on Facebook, tag me in them, leaving me to go quick as I can remove those tags.

And I want that to change. I want to memorialize my relationship and adventures with my partner. I want to flip through the pictures of us when we're old and wrinkled and remember all the fun we had as kids. I want to join him in the photos on my desk. I want to be one of those 'cute couples' on film. I want people to remember I was at a party, to see me having fun and loving life, to see me smiling.  So as I lose weight and get fit, I'll get over my fear of film and get more pictures.