One by One

I always hated taking pictures.

Not because I think it's nonsense, but because I never believed I was meant to be photographed.

There's something unsettling about being turned into a still image-like someone trying to prove you existed in a way you can never truly recognize.

I used to think I was just bad at it.

Awkward angles. Forced smiles. Eyes that never quite looked alive enough.

So I stopped trying.

But maybe it was never that I hated being photographed.

Maybe I just hated being captured by people who never really knew how to see me.