Keep the photograph

Women's confidence · Little Light original

Your friend sends the photograph after dinner. Everyone is laughing, including you. Before you remember the joke, you notice an angle you dislike and almost ask her to delete it. There are photographs you treasure of people you love. You see the familiar expression, the way they lean towards someone, the pleasure of having been together. You rarely examine them with the severity you reserve for yourself. Perhaps this picture deserves a little of that generosity. You were there. You enjoyed the evening. Someone who likes your company wanted to keep a trace of it. You can choose which photographs to share and still keep this one for yourself. Your life is happening while your opinion of your appearance changes. It is worth leaving yourself evidence of more than the days you felt camera-ready. Years from now, you may be glad to see the laugh before you remember to inspect the angle.

Little Light