Title: The Golden Child
Title: Welcome to the Real World
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I've always loved photography, even though I wouldn't say that I'm particularily talented at it...But my dad is an amazing photographer and I've always looked up to him in just about everything I do. These two pictures may not mean anything to somebody just looking at them, but to me they are very personal. In the first one, The Golden Child, I realize that I have it good. I am a good kid, with good grades, and a happy family. I am not ungrateful in any way at all. However, my sister has Achondroplasia and therefore has always gotten attention from my parents. Which I don't mind, seeing as I'm not a big fan of being the center of attention. But then she started getting low grades and I was doing exceptionally well in school and in sports, music, and art, which made her angry with me. I stopped practicing the piano and I stopped sketching in my sketchbook for about 3 years because I was so afraid that she would hate me for doing well in it. I decided not to go for a club soccer team and I almost gave up my academic career (but my mom forced me to take Honors classes and continue in my PACE program, which is a program for gifted children). This all makes me sound like an amazing person who sacrificed so much, but I'm not. I'm not superbly talented, I'm just slightly above average in a variety of things. Anyways, this picture was an expression of how I felt throughout those years. The years when I didn't need help but my older sister did, forcing me to grow up by myself in a way. I was the golden child that didn't get attention because I never needed it. Nobody asked how I was doing cause it was never a problem. But I'm okay with that because again, I know that I am blessed.
As for the second picture. It was just a statement on how high school never ends. It is something that is said frequently and I believe it to be true. I will study until I graduate and then I will go to university, where I will study until I graduate there. I will get a job and work and there will be the same drama no matter where I am. And I will never have the time to do what I love the most.
