A Selfie a Day...

I'm not one, usually, to follow popular trends.  Most of the time I find out about a fad when it's on it's downswing of popularity and has started to be overused, even in the ironic sense.  The selfie is no exception.  

One of the few selfies I've taken that I genuinely like.
This picture is also from, like, two years ago.
You can see how often I take selfies.  

I never really got into the whole selfie craze.  The thought of taking a picture of myself all the time was weird.  First of all, why did people need to see my face all the time?  I don't want to be that person who clogs their facebook newsfeed or twitter feed or Insta with my face.  

Secondly, I don't really like how I look most of the time.  If I'm honest, I don't think I'm always beautiful.  Oh sure, I have days where I look in the mirror and think DANG THAT GIRL IS ATTRACTIVE! I would totally wife that!  But most of the time?  I don't like myself very much.  

I could pull the "I was bullied" or the "Media inaccurately defines beauty" or the "I didn't have enough support as a child" cards.  (For the record, I have some of the most supportive parents I could ever asked for and friends who constantly tell me I am beautiful, so it most certainly is not the third card).  But I'm not going to.  I really think I just need to learn to love myself, imperfections and all.  Because I think it would be good for me, to love myself the way God loves me.  Ultimately He created me and He loves me the way I am.  

I stumbled upon this video yesterday, and it really got me thinking about how social media affects us.  I thought to myself "Why don't I take selfies?"  And this sort of catches you up to where I am now.  

As I was pondering, I happened to be watching the videos of a family on YouTube that I have been watching for a while, the Shaytards.  They have been vlogging almost every day for about 5 years.  And I realized: what if I made the commitment to take a selfie every day for a year?  No matter how I looked, how I felt, or what I was doing, take a selfie.  

But if I committed to do this, I would have to do so without critiquing myself.  If I committed to it, then I would have to acknowledge something beautiful about myself in every picture.  And maybe, just maybe, I would begin to see the beauty in my physical appearance.  Just because. 

I'm limiting myself to only taking five selfies a day, so that I don't sit there and attempt to take the PERFECT pose to highlight everything I like about myself.  That sort of defeats the purpose.  I want to learn to see the positives of myself, and presenting myself in a weird way, positioning just so in order to hide all my insecurities sort of defeats the purpose.

So here I go.  A selfie a day. Reguardless of how I am feeling, or how I look.  I may take them at the beginning of the day or the end.  I may be cute or bumming it up.  It's about finding myself beautiful every day.  And you can feel free to join me, if you wish.  But you don't have to.  

Well, I still don't want to clog my friend's news feeds (I don't want to be THAT friend, ya know?), I decided that I will post a week's worth of selfies on my blog every Saturday.  Maybe this will FINALLY get me to start posting regularly on this thing.  

I also think I will choose my favorite selfie of the week to upload to the Facebooks/Twitters/Instagrams.  And I will probably edit/filter only the selfie of the week.  So there is that.  Well, let the Selfie games begin!  

A selfie a day keeps the doubter away?  I guess we'll find out!  

BiggieKK's 2013 (January and February)

While looking back on my year, I figured a fun and interesting way would be to go back and look at my tweets from the year, and compile them into a few blog posts.  I figure I'll do 2 months a day this first week of the year, and a final post looking back to finish off the first week of the year.  Sounds fun, right?

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January

- Though there were many difficulties in getting to Passion 2013 (one exploded tire, another flat, no dinner, and no rooms for us to stay in), we got there.  And did God change my attitude about a lot of things.  I learned more about the 27 million slaves that are still in the world, and in our country, today.  And I learned of God's beautiful planning and his perfect orchestration of events in this world.

- I had quite possibly the most quotable roommate of all time.  #AmberRoomieProbs  One day I will compile all of the things she said into a word document to keep forever.

- Crazy things always happened when Amber ( my roommate), Katie (my suitemate), and I hung out in our dorm room together.  Fun shenanigans an hilarity.  

- Watched the Golden Globes and fell over when three of my favorite actresses won awards.  Yeah Dame Maggie Smith, Anne Hathoway, and Jennifer Lawrence. 

- Amber and I began the tradition that if it is snowing and we are in Greensboro, we will both wear our matching footsie pjs.  

- Began the first of many nights in Club Jack (AKA the Jackson Library on  campus) Let the studying, procrastinating, and silly shenanigans begin!]

- Entered into an epic twitter rap battle with one of my friends.  Totally won. 

- Went to an interview weekend to interview for BeDoTell, Deep Impact, and Camp Mundo Vista.  So blessed to have the opportunity to get to know people from all of the different NCBCM organizations and to be able to interview for the chance to spend my summer working for the Lord's Glory.  

- Helped organize and participate in a Week of Prayer at UNCG through Cru.  It was such a blessing on so many of us.  

- Along with my friend Schuyler, he found out that when you flip the light switch in the library (surprise surprise) the lights on the whole floor go off.  

February

- Got a pet fish for our room, which promptly died a few days later. RIP Wishes the Fishes

- Watched the Quidditch Game... I mean the Super Bowl.  Flailed around during the halftime show.  BEYONCE.

- Was offered and accepted a position with Deep Impact to work the summer.  And my life would never be the same.  Also found out I would be spending a week out of my summer going to Cuba.  Began mentally preparing myself for what would be a life-changing experience.  

- More Club Jack adventures.  Overhearing songs and having hilariously quotable moments.  

- Wished my Daddy a happy birthday and got to talk to the family on skype.  No matter how old I get I will always be a Daddy's girl, Momma's princess, and Big Sissy.

- A great number of my friends decided to spend at least a little bit of their time going to Africa. 

- Came up with predictions for the future including the world being run by two of our friends as dictators and all of us trying to decide where we would all live.  It was also 3am and we were delirious.  

- Got to fill in at the Youth Handbell Festival in Greensboro and reunite with some of my favorite youths and adults.  It was amazing to be able to ring again and to see everyone.  

- Disappeared from social media to help raise awareness for the End It Movement and the 27 million slaves that exist in the world who don't have a face or a voice.

- Went to Maxie B's for the first time with my friend Sarah.  It is a delightfully delicious cake bakery a short drive away from campus.  It was another life-changing experience!  ^_^