27 9 / 2009

Is that REALLY me?

miss-elle:

However, I can’t shake the feeling when I look at the picture that it isn’t me?  Am I having a crisis about my image?  Am I in shock that I’m ACTUALLY married?  Do I just not want to be one of those girls that makes her wedding the sum of her whole identity as a woman?

I have no idea.  I feel like there’s a psychological reason for why I don’t want that photo as my profile photo anymore.  I like it.  I don’t mind looking at it.  What’s my issue?

Hm, interesting.  I’m not a psychologist…so I don’t have the answers.  Having a wedding picture as your profile identity *is* a pretty powerful statement though.  I can understand why it would cause emotions.  I completely agree with you about how some women make their wedding their whole identity.  I think it’s an important distinction that you were a bride in the picture and now for the rest of you’re life you are a strong married woman.  The picture doesn’t represent who you are as a person, it represents the women you were that day, for that special event.  It’s okay to want to put a ‘regular everyday’ kind of picture back as your online identity. :)


By the way, you were a gorgeous bride!  I hope I’m that gorgeous in my wedding someday! :)