This is a picture that I had on my GoPro from when I was 15. I used to be so cringy and bring it everywhere. I thought that I was so cool, but now I look back on this and am embarrassed. I wish that I would have lived in the moment more rather than trying to capture everything on camera. It is nice to look back on positive memories that I may not have remembered otherwise, but pictures like this are frustrating because it is so pretty I don’t understand why I needed to be focused on my camera out there. I used so swim out on boogie boards and try and get cool videos of all my friends surfing and now I’m regret not taking that time to actually surf. I feel like this phase happened for so many other people because it is around the time that influencers started to become a real thing. I thought that I was being so beachy and wanted to be like Jay Alvarez and Alexis Ren who were making travel videos around the world. It is crazy to look back and see how they were one of the first people who blew up like that and now being an influencer for work is what a lot of people are trying to do. I personally do not think that I would be comfortable sharing my life with so many people, but I do think it is a creative work of art who people who choose to do so.