Yuki's scraps

by Yuki Harima

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words by Yuki Harima

Have you ever heard that a picture is worth a thousand words? When my parents first told me that, I was skeptical that such a simple photo can contain so many words. I would try to find the “words” in the photos but I can only get a couple dozen of words. Thinking about it, I was going at it all wrong. I was only trying to write words about the physical aspect of the picture. If the pony was smiling, I would say he/she was happy. If the pony had tears streaming down their face, I would say that they were sad or hurt. If the pony looked like they were shivering then I would say that they were cold. The method of just describing the physical aspect of the picture made me overlook the actual meaning of the photo. I should have been looking within the photo instead of what was on it.

It might sound silly at first when you think about it, a photo having some deep meaning within it seems farfetched but you need to think about it in a different perspective. Let’s take the smiling pony as our first example. On the outside the pony is smiling so you would always claim that the pony seems to be happy but as I said, you would only get the couple of words to describe it. Ask yourself some questions. Is that pony really happy? Is the pony just smiling because it is a photo and he or she just wanted to look nice for it? Maybe the pony is really sad and is masking the pain with a smile. Did something bad happen to the pony? Did a relative die? Did the pony receive bad news? You’re thinking that I am overanalyzing the situation just a tad much but how else will I get to achieve those one thousand words to describe the picture.

Author's Note:

This is suppose to be Twilight telling her future pupil about a picture of her friends. She talks about the memories they have with them and how that the phrase is true. Twilight is also lamenting on their deaths as well due to her being immortal and etc as other stories have done so. It was written in a night...and I never look back on it to finish it.