My life without a filter

Without a filter

My eyes aren’t as bright

My teeth aren’t as white

My hair isn’t always perfect

I don’t always smile

What the picture with the Lo-Mo filter fails to show you is,

The battles I’ve fought to get where I am

How I’ve gotten to where I can eat a piece of cake and still feel like I’m worthy

How my scars are fading and I’m smiling more

The way I laugh when my friend tells me a joke

What my real smile looks like when I’m happy

How my eyes light up when I talk about something I love

It doesn’t show the nights I stayed up helping my friends

It shows you what you think is me

But if it really showed me, if the pictures we put on social media showed people

Who we are

What we’ve been through

Where we’re going

People’s minds would change

 Maybe the way we look at each other

 Treat each other would change

Maybe one day our pictures will show who we are

Maybe one day we won't have to pretend just for the camera