I've been feeling fairly okay about my appearance lately, but today I was trying to take passport photos of myself and I looked god-awful in a lot of them and it just crushed my confidence and self-image.I can't work it out. What I looked like in those photos is nothing like what I've been seeing in the mirror. Even photo to photo can be very different.I recognise that wearing a blank expression doesn't help. Maybe the lighting isn't helping. My posture is always very awkward in a photo, but if I manage to stand up somewhat confidently I seem to look better. But none of that changes how I look at the base level.For one thing I'm not really sure what to believe. Is the camera that distorting? Is my mirror particularly flattering?But now my self-image has been destroyed and in my mind I look like an autistic retard and I'm going to be horribly self-conscious and depressed for ages. The shirts I was wearing in those photos are dead to me because I'll only be able to see myself like those photos wearing them.Wat do
Just get buff and get some new clothes
>>35077913Your body is a costume so you can live on earth. It’s not you. And You’ve had many body’s. Don’t get all bent outta shape because the one you have now isn’t all cute and picture perfect because you’re gonna die one day and come outta that body, and when you do, you’re gonna appreciate the fact that you had it and got to use it. No matter how ugly you were. Love yourself. No matter how you look. Everyone is ugly. That’s what you realize when you do actually look good. You realize that everyone is fckin ugly as shit.
>>35077913i wouldn't worry too much about a photo taken for passports. their only purpose is to make you recognizable to the cattle her- i mean, the security officials having to look at it, so they use unnaturally bright light and require you to look unflattering for that purpose. you probably also took it willy-nilly and were tired, which doesn't helpfocal points also have some effect on it (pic related), that's a camera-related issue that doesn't apply to a mirror that more accurately reflects your appearance to someone else.and yes, your mirror may be flattering for reasons like lighting, slant and whatnot but as i said it's much more reflective of your real self than a crummy photo that's not meant to make you look good in the slightest
