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This image shows that i am smiling, almost happy. As you can see, i have a profile of my face, my body is facing sideways while my head is rotated directly towards the camera. This picture doesn't show excitement, it barely shows happiness. It looks as if I am content but I've gone through a lot and through it all, I've managed to still tough it out. I don't have in any jewelry and my hair is effortlessly pulled up with a few pieces hanging down.  This portrait has a soft, elegant, and effortless mood. I look like I am proud of who I've become, but i'm ready for change.
I will achieve this identity by living out my life. Going through high school I will be opened to experiences that will change not only myself, but my way of thinking. As years will go on i'll be torn down, and built up, but in the end it's the lessons i'll learn and the life lessons i'll take with me out into the world past this isolated world called high school, it will really prepare me for what's out among this world to explore. In Girl With a Pearl Earring, Maria Thins quotes, “Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.” This quote relates to this concept of just living life will open you up to so many new experiences, so by the time I'm a senior, things that shock or are new to me , will be like second nature.
Also, I will achieve this identity of doing what makes me happy. In middle school, and even being a freshman in high school, we all try to do what makes other people happy. Wearing the clothes everyone else wears, listening to the same music, even the same hairstyle.  I feel as if seniors have gotten to the point that these people they consider friends now, won't matter by the time they're off in college.  They do what makes THEM happy because they've finally mastered the concept of making decisions based on their opinion, not on society's.  Griet thinks in Girl With a Pearl Earring, “I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home.” When seniors, or people in general realize what makes them happy, or what they want to do in life, and does it not because everyone else is, or because anyone tells them to,  because it's makes THEM happy, they often think that it's been there all along, but it blindsided by what everybody wants for them, so I'll be sure to do what makes me happy in order to achieve this identity in the future.


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