Picture perfect

Don't get carried away, don't get too excited. Don't let your hopes get too high or your imagination run too wild...

Those are just few similar sentences I keep on telling myself. My mind is just the way it is; it usually gets ahead too fast for its own good.

Is it possible to fall for someone you've never met but have seen a picture? If so, then I might be headed that way... I shoudn't have looked, but hey, I'm a journalist by nature, so I'm bloody curious at times! So here I am, hoping for the best, fearing for the worst, and wishing that the Universe can play this time its game smoothy - and, you know, has brought this someone into my thoughts for a reason which is other than simply torture me emotionally for a minute or twenty.

Today I understood how hard it truly is to take a picture of oneself. You see, I took a look at the snaps I had taken about me, by myself. Most of them are... well... unprintable and were deleted as soon as possible. The lighting was off, my look was terrified and I looked white! But, funny enough, in few good ones, my face looked great, I actually looked myself, but the background was dark as a night... My camera is ok, my skills are great, so it must be the Universe working its wonders there! Hah hah...

I've understood that so often we forget that pictures are just that, pictures. They capture one, small moment, and that is all they are. Sure, they will show us happy faces and sad faces and gestures we might otherwise miss. But they are, still, creastions of that second they were taken and show what they want. The person in the picture is that person on that second and should the photographer take another one any minute, they would find that the very same person looks entirely different in that second picture. Or third, twentieth and so on.

And the people we see in pics and fall in like with them... Should we ever meet them in real life, right in front of us, they just might not be exactly like they are in the picture. I've seen that happening more than enough myself, and yes, the woman in my camera's snap shots is me, although even my mom would not recognise me in some of them... That's the way it is.

Nothing is picture perfect in this world, nothing.