It was my second grade year at Benjamin Franklin Elementary
school in North Miami, Florida and it was the annual school portrait picture day.
I remember the night before picture day I was happy because I had recently had
my first two teeth fall out. I was happy at that moment because it was my dream
around that time to lose my first set of teeth and join the teeth less gang of
second-graders at my school. Unfortunately, while I was all caught up in the
moment of losing my first set of teeth I completely forgot that the next day
was picture day at school. The following morning while my mom was getting me
ready for school I noticed that she put on a pair of earrings that she usually
let me wear for special occasions. I asked her what was the special occasion
and she told me that it was picture day. I instantly became both sad and happy.
Sad, because I didn’t want to take pictures with two missing teeth and happy
because I love picture day. So fast forward to the mood in the picture, I mean I
remember what mood I was in at the time but in the picture my mood seemed to be
EXCITED. Looking back at the picture I realized how back in second grade I wasn’t
as prideful as I am now. I say that because being as prideful as I am now I would
never take a picture with missing teeth let alone a pimple no matter how much I
love picture day; because back in that picture even though I didn’t want to
take pictures with my missing teeth I put that aside and gave a huge smile. I guess
that’s because back then I cared less of what people thought and of what my
flaws were and just did the thing that made me happy.
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