I have always seen influencers on instagram with alll of these gorgeous pics of themselves and I often wonder how they get SO many.
Just one of the many I follow talked about how she has a little app that connects to her phone so she can click a button and take pics while standing away from her phone so she will just set up her tri-pod and have a photo shoot with herself.
It’s amazing to me, to seemingly have that much confidence in yourself, I usually only do my self portraits at home and ask my friends (Well mainly my little sis) to take pics of me in public— so I decided to do this myself. I was running on the beach yesterday and saw the perfect location to have a photo shoot with myself. It’s this really cool bridge that I rarely ever see anyone make use of. I knew I’d feel comfortable doing my shoot there since this would be my first time shooting myself and not so many folks would be buzzing around.
I got there around 615 PM, as the sun is starting to go down, and it made for some of the coolest pics with weird shadows and a beautiful glow behind me.
Oh and I wanted to say all of this bc the girl I follow also said some people pass by and make bullying remarks and some people pass by and bust out with some positive vibes && I just wanna say— if someone is ugly to you when you’re feeling good and confident in yourself DO NOT LET HATERS KNOCK YOU DOWN. Smile harder, do 10x more duck lips, and let their envy motivate you to get that perfect shot; or whatever it is you’re going for.
I had two handfuls of people pass by and only one couple laughed but it didn’t seem malicious, and who cares if it was. Pretty proud of myself for doing it, and not having to ask Shinah to take my picture again. 😂😂😂😂
I know there are people that probably make fun of my confidence, My pics I post of myself, my inspirational posts, and more than likely they are probably just subconsciously wishing they could have that confidence, too. I hope this isn’t making me
sound full of myself, because I need you all to know that sometimes I am literally so full of self-loathing that I wish I had a completely different body and mindset (which clearly isnt healthy- working on it)
These days Im learning to be my own sunshine. My counselor had me do a vision board for our last session, and she pointed out to me that she found it interesting that in the VERY center of my entire board, I pasted “Shine Bright”. I truthfully didnt do that on purpose, so I was shooketh when she pointed it out and told me how it’s so true, that all of these things that I want in my life don’t have to be there for me to shine bright like I was meant to do. I always have and will feel compelled to share, listen, uplift, motivate, love the seemingly unloveable, to be kind to everyone, inspire hearts/minds, and shining bright and helping people in times of emotional/mental need is a huge passion of mine, that I may be a light in someone else’s darkest days.
There‘s a song I used to love to sing as a child “This little light of mine, Im gonna let it shine“ and in the song It’s representative of Jesus, and you have to protect your light so satan won’t blow it out and you shouldn’t ever hide It, you should “let it shine, let it shine, let it shine”.
I know taking pictures of yourself doesnt = light, but using those pictures and that action to carry a positive message, that is the light!! And Im always on that “the light within me, honors the light within you“
vibe, so get your candles out and let your light shine bright as we go into this next week! 🕯🕯🕯
LOVE YA, MEAN IT
UNTIL NEXT TIME
XOXO
M.
And to all the haters, stay in your own lane && MIND YA BUSINESS!! lol 😆 although you probs need to be here more than most! 😘
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