So this week’s challenge was to capture the concept of “guilty”. It was a hard one for me, not because I couldn’t find anything that fit the concept, but because I found so many things that did. So in the end, this is what I decided to photograph.

See I am filled with guilt. I was raised to feel guilty about everything. Never smart enough, never pretty enough, never good enough, whether my family meant to teach me this lesson or not, they did. Many have taken advantage of this over the years, using my own guilt and self doubt to use or control me. And I make it easy on them by perpetuating my own guilt and self doubt punishing myself when no one else is here to do it for me.

Pardon my French, but it’s about damn time I stop living with this parasitic twin named Guilt and embraced my victories and my failures. It’s about time I stop perpetuating the circumstances I was raised in and embraced my right to be a happy, normal person.