Photo Survey
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1) Recent picture of yourself:
From a friend's birthday party with a "Pink & Black" theme.
How is life lately? Feeling Happy? Sad? Angry? Things going your way? I'm feeling sort of weird today. Just spent the weekend procrastinating and having really good conversations with a friend and churning out a major paper for school. Life lately has been really stressful because of law school... so much work all the time. The pressure is unbelievable. I'm sort of content despite the stress... so I'm somewhere between uber-anxious and happy to be busy.
What calms you down when you're upset? Writing or confronting the issue that's making me upset--talking to whoever's involved.
2) Picture of yourself from a good time in your life:
This is from 2005.
Why was this such a good time? Great job? Found yourself? Great relationship? It was the first time I went to Pride. I went with my good friend Phil from high school while I was back home for the summer. I was finding my sexual identity, getting comfortable with myself. I was at my healthiest--eating really well and working out and finally comfortable with my body. I was 18, almost 19, and this was before I'd ever gotten into a long term relationship, so I didn't have much emotional baggage and my life was just my own. Plus, I was in college but home for the summer--so there wasn't much to worry about.
What could you do to be this happy again? I could get my act together about eating healthy again and exercise more than once every 4 months or so. It always feels good to be healthy and strong. I don't know that I'll ever be as carefree since there's so much adult life pressure nowadays.
3) Picture of yourself from a bad time in your life:
Right before I broke up with my first girlfriend, first long term relationship. I was 20, almost 21. Don't we look HAPPY?
Why was this a bad time? Were you confused, angry? Bad breakup? So this was a lovely example of me being miserable for the last 5 months of this relationship. We were supposed to move in together and get those kittens together--but things were going badly enough we got separate apartments in the same complex, the cats were mine. I'd just gotten cats and still not happy--that's pretty bad. She was on the computer all the time (can you tell?) and ugh. Just...ick. I was feeling icky, unwanted, and unloved...and I was staying still at this point which is definitely worse than after the breakup despite how hard that was.
What's better now? Do you think you'll ever be this low or miserable again? Well I got out of that relationship, whew. And I learned my lesson, and will never make the same mistake of being with someone that toxic. I'm in a healthy amazing relationship right now. I know I can be low, depressed, miserable again... but never for the same reasons.
4) A photo that makes you really happy:
Who or what is in this photo? My fiance James and one of our cats when we first decided to keep her (originally were just going to give her to a good home). She was so little--1.8 lbs and ridiculously adorable.
Why does it make you happy to see this? James is in the pic, and smiling and mmm I just love seeing her so happy. And I love cats, especially mine, especially as a kitten. This also represents us doing something together (I mean we lived together already but...) that is permanent and meaningful... getting a cat that's not just bonded to one of us and from before we got together. It's like having a kid together!
1) Recent picture of yourself:
From a friend's birthday party with a "Pink & Black" theme.
How is life lately? Feeling Happy? Sad? Angry? Things going your way? I'm feeling sort of weird today. Just spent the weekend procrastinating and having really good conversations with a friend and churning out a major paper for school. Life lately has been really stressful because of law school... so much work all the time. The pressure is unbelievable. I'm sort of content despite the stress... so I'm somewhere between uber-anxious and happy to be busy.
What calms you down when you're upset? Writing or confronting the issue that's making me upset--talking to whoever's involved.
2) Picture of yourself from a good time in your life:
This is from 2005.
Why was this such a good time? Great job? Found yourself? Great relationship? It was the first time I went to Pride. I went with my good friend Phil from high school while I was back home for the summer. I was finding my sexual identity, getting comfortable with myself. I was at my healthiest--eating really well and working out and finally comfortable with my body. I was 18, almost 19, and this was before I'd ever gotten into a long term relationship, so I didn't have much emotional baggage and my life was just my own. Plus, I was in college but home for the summer--so there wasn't much to worry about.
What could you do to be this happy again? I could get my act together about eating healthy again and exercise more than once every 4 months or so. It always feels good to be healthy and strong. I don't know that I'll ever be as carefree since there's so much adult life pressure nowadays.
3) Picture of yourself from a bad time in your life:
Right before I broke up with my first girlfriend, first long term relationship. I was 20, almost 21. Don't we look HAPPY?
Why was this a bad time? Were you confused, angry? Bad breakup? So this was a lovely example of me being miserable for the last 5 months of this relationship. We were supposed to move in together and get those kittens together--but things were going badly enough we got separate apartments in the same complex, the cats were mine. I'd just gotten cats and still not happy--that's pretty bad. She was on the computer all the time (can you tell?) and ugh. Just...ick. I was feeling icky, unwanted, and unloved...and I was staying still at this point which is definitely worse than after the breakup despite how hard that was.
What's better now? Do you think you'll ever be this low or miserable again? Well I got out of that relationship, whew. And I learned my lesson, and will never make the same mistake of being with someone that toxic. I'm in a healthy amazing relationship right now. I know I can be low, depressed, miserable again... but never for the same reasons.
4) A photo that makes you really happy:
Who or what is in this photo? My fiance James and one of our cats when we first decided to keep her (originally were just going to give her to a good home). She was so little--1.8 lbs and ridiculously adorable.
Why does it make you happy to see this? James is in the pic, and smiling and mmm I just love seeing her so happy. And I love cats, especially mine, especially as a kitten. This also represents us doing something together (I mean we lived together already but...) that is permanent and meaningful... getting a cat that's not just bonded to one of us and from before we got together. It's like having a kid together!