Jessica Tenekegian
Photography Contest
23 February 2011
Rough Draft
Lucky Aged
Growing up is never easy, sometimes the wind knocks you over, the sun shines to bright or rain falls too hard but in the end a positive attitude and looking as the "glass is half" is all that matters. In reality, we never stop growing up, we are on a constant journey of growing older, learning more, and maturing wisely. Life is what you make of it, and you choose happiness. We as humans are experiencing every inch of life while the time passes us by and before we know it we are telling ourselves along with other people around us "wow where did the time go?". So how are you going to choose to spend it?
Lucky aged is an idea of growing up and growing up is a very important process to me. I want to experience life to the fullest by which I mean learning everything I can physically, mentally and emotionally can. Everyday I, as well the people who surround me are doing something different whether it's going on hikes, bike riding across town, exploring parks, traveling to foreign cities, and meeting and conversing with as many souls as I possibly can. Out these daily activities we go to bed with new knowledge and stronger bonds with the world, along with many photographs documentary out everyday.
With my love for globes, laughter, my best friend and nature is how these photographs came about. Lucky aged is a visional story of a young lady who is learning, living and loving who she is as well as the world around her. Being eighteen, we are always told that we think we know everything and how we can “conquer the world”, which is all true to the majority, but before I have someone telling me how I should live my life because they did it in the wrong, I want to genuinely experience it for myself through books, maps, people and my own honest mistakes.
The way I view my life is when I wake up in the morning, I have two options to which I can only pick one: it can be a good day or it could be a bad one. I always choose good, as would many others. The most important I have ever learned is to spend your youth optimistcly, and gain every opportunity that you can because you only live once, and at this moment you are your youngest.
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