Taking pictures

I used to be very unhappy about my life. The pressure of getting into the college, and the expectations that my family has put on me made me feel breathless. I use to have good friends and teachers, they offered to talk to me and let me speak all the problems out, but I felt so speechless. I couldn’t say a word when facing them. So I became lonely and weird. I didn’t know what can I do, and my life just wouldn’t get better. I can’t figure out a way to solve this puzzle. Then I began to stay at home all the time, therefore, gradually I just can’t talk to people. Sometimes I felt like I couldn’t look them in the eyes, because that would make me feel lonelier and left out. I felt so sad all the time. Even now look back at those days; I still can feel that at that time, my sky was always dark and gray. It was horrible and pathetic. I was hopeless. Then one of my best friend told me, “if you can’t talk to me, or you can’t talk to anyone, then at least go out, alone, to take some pictures. Maybe this would help”. Since then, I started to take pictures about the things around me. Such as my bed, my room, the books I read, or the plants in my room. I started to feel something has changed in me. I felt like I began to communicate with others, although they are not people. I felt that they would totally understand me and accept me. Then I hang the pictures up on a string, it was beautiful and peaceful. I felt happier. Then my friend came to see me. I took several pictures with her, and she took some pictures of me. I have never seen us together in a picture, and it was different, it feels so harmonic and so warm. I then understood that to see that you are together with someone is very different with to think that you are together. When you see the picture of you and your friend, the happiness inside picture is indescribable. Although you already felt happy enough with your friend, you will feel much happier when look at your pictures together. And this truly helped me. Since then, I began to walk outside and hang with my friends, and of course take pictures. Moreover, I’ve seen from the internet that to take one or two pictures per day will make you a happy day. I bet this works.