Underneath my photo…

 The day I took my picture I was genuinely and honestly excited which I think the picture conveys perfectly.  We were in Ecuador over the summer by a local church my family grew up by.  It had been a relatively hot day for Ecuador and my dad decided that to commemorate the memory of going on vacation that I should take a picture. Although I am generally happy in the photo  some other things were going on at the time. It had been hard to go to Ecuador following the loss of my grandmother and yet it was also a nostalgic experience to be able to revisit the place that so many of my family members grew up in. Besides the happy feelings I was also nervous about beginning my senior year in high school because I knew that that was the time I had to take everything seriously and work towards not only with my present self but my future self as well. So although I was smiling in the picture I was just as nervous as I was happy. I had also been going through the fact that my friend passed away only two days before this picture. It has been a hard experience that I really didn’t want to talk about because it just seems so personal that I don’t think anyone would understand that I didn’t think anyone with anythin I had also been going through the fact that my friend passed away only two days before this picture. It has been a hard experience that I really didn’t want to talk about because it just seems so personal that I didn’t think anyone would understand.  After all who could know my pain. A friend that was just beginning her senior just like me and just beginning to take a step in her new future had passed away without even been given the chance to move on in life or start a new chapter in life. So in this picture besides being happy and nervous I had to take the time to appreciate what I am grateful to have and that was my family and the family trips I have with them.so in this picture besides being happy and nervous I had to take the time to appreciate what I am grateful to have and that was my family and the family trips I have with them. So within my smile and within my  excited pose I was hiding a mix of true and masked emotions. I was feeling them all at once and this picture was the result.