a couple of times a year, i get in my underpants and take a photo of myself. i tell myself i love myself and then i celebrate anything i see---i am lucky. I have a ballet barre in here and i love to work out, but still some days i think it's all over. then, the photo reminds me i am perfect as i am. to me selfies are a positive way to overcome the voices that tell you you aren't enough--in a world of models and people who get paid for their face and body, why can't we too celebrate our perfection in our imperfection as beauty. i have been accused of validation seeking by humans that don't appreciate anything about me, save my writing--they tell me my selfies make me less easy to be taken seriously as a writer, but i don't see why anyone should be put in a box like that. are they also upset i love sex? or that when someone asks me what my sexual preference is, i say: good sex, obviously. but, i make films. i take photos. i make clothes--why must i be categorized as only one thing. i have beautiful taste and i think deeply about the world i live in and my impact on others and theirs on me. i also like to have fun. i love animals and want to be successful--i got an agent last year for a book that i wrote and then went back to school to film my own content for all my screenplays that already do pretty well in contests, but never sold. i love my friends and they love me. but even if someone posts a photo of their food, they hope someone else will like it. truthfully in deep psychological terms the selfie serves two functions it is overcoming things you can't possibly ever quite get over, and teaching yourself bravery to be whatever you are whether someone else likes it or gets it or not.
