Personal Narrative: How Photography Changed My Life

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My world is amazing, on occasion, that is. I have lived in a little town named Desert Hot Springs for all the seventeen years of my life, I have done everything there is to do, I have seen everything there is to see, is what I thought before. I have since then acquired a completely different view towards this little town. I have also since then found what I believe I am good at, Photography. Photography allows me to see something I like that I otherwise would not be able to take with me, and it lets me physically take with me a souvenir of that time. I am a very creative person, but I did not start out that way. My parents split apart when I was very young. It has probably been ten years since my father left, left me fatherless and I just used to say I hate him in dishonest jest when honestly, I miss him like when I was eight and every time I acquired the chance to say it, I would swallow it and shove it deep inside my being until I would not feel the urge to speak about anymore.

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