I don’t like my pictures taken. I don’t like it especially when somebody takes my picture and I don’t know what the person will do for the picture. I don’t like to be posted my picture in any kinds of SNS or tagged my picture in my Facebook without my permission.
I was like that even when I was small. I remember I didn’t like my pictures taken by the school teachers or other classmates’ parents. Whenever some strangers took pictures of us, whenever I could, I hid myself from somebody’s back. I am sure this dislike regarding photo is rooted from my past lives.
Have you ever heard that elders of Native American and Australian Aborigines don’t like their pictures to be taken? Some people say it is because they believe the photo shooting takes part of your soul. I believe that, and that is why I don’t like my pictures taken by strangers.
In this modern days, everybody takes pictures and posts the pictures without the permission from the person in the picture.
I want to share two of my personal experiences regarding the picture taken of my daughter.
First experience is a good one about people with commonsense. When she was still small (before reaching at the school age), in the library or the park, strangers came up to me and asked me if they could take pictures of my daughter (because she was so cute.) I would always reject their request with my politeness and respect. I appreciated them for asking me a permission and I asked them not to take pictures of me or my daughter. I just told them the reason as “for our safety.”
“For our safety” is the most appropriate reason. Many people don’t understand that we are all energy. We are all made by vibration. I believe that our part of energy (our part of soul) enters even in a photo.
The second experience is not a pleasant one. At the preschool, the parents received a letter from the director. The letter was to inform the graduation ceremony. Also it asked parents to let her know if any of us don’t feel comfortable to our child’s pictures taken and posted in SNS. So I visited the director, who was young maybe in her late 20s. I explained the reason why I don’t want my daughter’s picture taken and posted in SNS. Then, the director, to my surprise, started raising her voice. What she told me did not sound right. She said “This is America. We live in America. Americans do whatever they want. America is the country of freedom. I, as the director, cannot stop anybody posing their pictures in their SNS. They might have their parents or grandparents in another state. Such long distance family enjoy the pictures posted in SNS.” She suggested me not to attend the graduation ceremony.
I was furious. I wanted to raise this conversation as a complaint to her supervisor or somebody who is responsible to the preschool, but I didn’t for our safety.
The lesson that I learned from this experience is to protect myself and my family as much as possible. And, I should express my feeling about taking pictures and posting in SNS whenever I need to. I wonder what other people who have same opinions with me will do.
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