I turn my camera on

I've made the decision that I want to start my senior year blog a few days early. This blog isn't really intended for anyone else but myself, but I will have it public under the principle that I'd like to hear someone's story be told far away from here. I suppose I should start by telling the reason behind this journalist that I'm wanting to start.

It was a pretty quick decision in under an hour I've decided It would be a good thing to record a little something before my departure of high school. Currently I will be entering my senior year at Jefferson High School-MCAS in Portland Oregon. I suppose more information will surface as I write my entries which will make it fun for the both of us no? I'm not in the habit of sharing things, so giving an overview of my life is unappealing to me. I don't subscribe to the regime of posting on Facebook and twitter like too many teenagers my age. Instead over the past 3 years I've been just documenting my life through photos and video. Their subjects are not even of myself, but rather the places and experiences of my past. I have no one around me to hold up the camera for me so these pictures are all I have. Sometimes I wish I could sit down with someone and share my memories as they are displayed in the frozen frames that I have created. Each picture has a story behind it, sometimes short, but nonetheless a story. Perhaps a picture hold a certain feeling I had and whenever I refer back to it I can remember why I took that picture. I try to have meaning behind the pictures I take.

My inspiration for this blog comes from my desire to document my life, knowing that I create windows for my future self to look back on and see how things were. I sometimes feel as I am living in the past, and other times feel as it is the future. It's all quite lovely to think about. I've come to the realization that writing may be the only in depth way for one to look back on this past and make sense of what I feel. Pictures alone can be worth a thousand words, but not all of them may be what I wanted them to represent so I write today. The straw that broke the camel's back on this one was a bit of reflecting on my own life after playing "Life is Strange" on the PS3. It was only a demo of the first part of the game, but it made me really think about how I view my life at this point going past my adolescent years. I think about that Kind of thing a lot, and I may go over it sometime later. The short of it was that game was beautiful and it inspired me to write, to share for once even if it's not to someone close, because I'm tired of waiting for that one person to come around. I feel that this could be a beneficial practice for me and I hope to see it play out well for my last year of adolescence. .