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"I AM ME" - The Song (Official Lyric Video) Fearless Soul

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE_kzab3BWw

I am me

I'll never pretend to be another

I will never want to BE another

I will not change who I am just to fit in

I am me

I am not perfect

But I'm working on myself

Working to become the best version of myself

I'm not putting on a mask no more

The true me can't stay hidden

Because I'm not putting on a show no more

I'm not gonna act to fit in

Yeah, I might not be perfect

But I'm working on my best version

I'm on my way

Yes I'm on my way

If I have to I'll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won't

I am me

I can't pretend to be what I'm not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

I am me

If I have to I'll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won't

I am me

I can't pretend to be what I'm not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

I am me

Yes I am me

I am me

I'm not putting on a mask no more

I've got my own life to live

There's so much more I can give

I walk my own path

I won't pretend to be another

Never want to be another

Won't apologize for being me

That's all I can be

Yeah, I might not be perfect

But I'm working on my best version

I'm on my way

Yeah, I'm on my way

If I have to I'll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won't

I am me

I can't pretend to be what I'm not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

I am me

Yeah, I might not be perfect

But I'm working on my best version!

I'm on my way

Because I'm on my way!

If I have to I'll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won't

I am me (I'm me)

I can't pretend to be what I'm not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

Because I am me (I am me)

Yes, I am

Yes, I am me

Songwriters: Nicholas Macri

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One of a few similar statues at Aylesbury. I think they are called "I am Me"

Minolta XD7

Minolat MC 50mm f/1.7

Kodak Colorplus 200

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Minolta 100mm f/2.8 Macro

Light Box

TOTW ~ Faceless Fotos

FGR ~ Who the Frick are You?

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Well. For one, I found it extremely endearing that FGR and TOTW should co-exist on such a format - to show who you are and yet without your face. Tempting goal.

I was also utterly determined not to photoshop myself in an unrealistic fashion (i.e. a slimming contortion that makes me look tall/attractively thin/etc.)

No photoshop today, just a filter. (a new fav, btw...hee hee)

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I am many things. Those who know me, know I am far from perfect. I have been perfectly imperfect my whole life.

Perhaps this is why I do not preach.

I also do not judge. And I am the first person to give the benefit of the doubt.

Furthermore I almost always forgive the transgressions against me.

I have been the bitch that stabbed you in the back.

I have been the arms that helped pick up those who have been wounded.

I have been the best friend, and the worst enemy.

I have been needy, and I have been needed.

I have been broken, and I have helped heal.

I have been abused, I have been the abuser.

I have lost myself, I have helped others find themselves.

I have been happy, and I have caused happiness.

I have been a lover, and I have been loved.

I am not a perfect person; I am not a perfect woman; I am not a perfect anyone.

but I am the perfect K. me. myself. and I. good, bad, and inbetween.

The lonely walk back.

All this momentum is doing me in

3fer

TOTW & HSS & 52 Weeks of no Color

Out of my comfort zone here as I never take pics of me in bed and I rarely go for low key shots. But that's what it's all about right? Trying new things...

Best on Black

Napoli Pride

IDENTITY - What defines who you are?

Is it your shape?

Your skin?

Your clothes?

Your groups or activities?

When I first came to Second Life, it was a journey of self-discovery on figuring out who I am as a person and how that applied to my real life. I have made many friends from across the globe in my four years here and the only reason I stay is to connect with them.

Some people are sadly so disconnected in real life AND Second Life that the only thing they can think of doing is attacking others out of their own insecurities. They bully people online by harassing them, attacking events, and copybotting the creations of hardworking artists and designers. People react in different ways to these attacks, from bullying the person right back to ignoring them altogether. I highly encourage the latter but since some cannot seem to do that for whatever reason, I propose a different idea.

I am starting a Flickr campaign focused on self-empowerment. I feel the real issue is people put too much emphasis on identifying themselves through shapes, skins and titles and forget that it is your personality overall that makes you unique. Just because someone copies you, doesn't take away from who YOU are. You are you. I am me. There is nothing any copybotting griefer can do to change the person on the other side of that screen.

I encourage you to take a photo of yourself and manipulate "copies" of yourself to portray this point. Tell us about your titles, groups, expose everything. Give away styling info down to the eyes and skin to say, "hey if you really think you'll have a better Second Life by looking exactly like me, by all means, go ahead. You will never become ME because only I Am ME."

Please join me on this expression of self-empowerment and let everyone know exactly WHO you are.

www.flickr.com/groups/i_am_me/

Anigma Eulenberg

"I Am Me" Protagonist

Part of: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away - An ENSO (Japanese: circle, Japanisch: Kreis) a day .... " Aktion Kreis Tagebuch A circle diary - Start of the 365-days Project: 1. September // blue orange

DMC-G2 - P1880206 - 2015-02-01

I am questioning the unanswerable, I am confident but unsure

I am bored but I am not, I am lonely but with people

I am tired but can't sleep, I am happy but I am troubled

I am here but I am lost, I am thoughtful with no answers

I am strong but I am scared, I am tolerant of most but not of me

I am waiting but not going anywhere, I am quiet but have a lot to say

I am silent but screaming, I am willing but I am patient

I am colorful in a world of black and white

I am loving and I am loved, I am free and I am faithful

I am all this

I am me

and i wouldn't have it any other way.

The Utatan Project: I am me

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or, i have a short attention span. i will often get bored of my hobbies. I played sudoku obsessively for a month last year. Now I don't play at all really. I really wanted to try painting a few years ago, so I did all my research, bought some supplies, planned out some projects. I haven't touched the stuff yet.

this alone is proof that I adore photography. 6 months of taking at least one shot every day (and usually hundreds more), and I have yet to get sick of it, get bored, or want to quit.

So, I drew this on my feet yesterday. I go through these spurts where I get bored or inspired and want to draw, then I draw on myself. This is what I have drawn so far, and I realized I really miss free handing and tracing. I'm going to start again, specially since I have so much time to these days.

Well, some people will say it's bad to draw on ourselves, but honestly, I don't care. It's fun to do and it's not permant like a tattoo so if you decide you don't want it there anymore, depending on what you use to draw on yourself, you can remove it with water easyily. Sharpie is usually what I choose, so I've got to pull out the nail polish remover if I want or need what I've drawn on myself off quickly. It's my body and I'll draw on it if I want, that's how I see it.

I love being artistic in as many ways as I can, drawing is one of them, even if it's on myself. It's fun, I will let other friends draw on me too. They are allowed to do whatever they choose as long as it is not immoral, inapropraite, or wrong, so far no one has ever tried to draw or write something on my arm or hand that I'd be mad or uncomfortable showing other people.

One friend in particular this last winter drew a beautiful rose that started on the top of my right hand and the steam led down a good portion of my arm. It was cool and I wished I had pictures of it! Later on that same week, I ended up having several sharpie drawings on my right arm and a few on my left as well. On of the ones on my right are was of wings, I can't and couldn't ever forget that one, around that time is when "Angel Photography" got it's meaning. The drawing of wings was special for so many reasons. It was fun to see what my friends would draw and their creativeness.

Art is lots of fun and there are so many forms of it. I hope you all have your own ways of expressing yourself through art.

Anyways, I'll quite rambling about this and maybe go do something productive or go draw this in my sketch book the way I'd really like it to look. This was pretty roughly drawn on my feet.

"I Am Me", a sculpture by Colin Spofforth at The Exchange, Aylesbury. 15th April 2019.

COLORIMETRIA MATRIX SOCOLOR

Another stop motion.

I thought it was a cute idea, and it was interesting making this. Random people walking by and staring at you is always a fun time.

My pieces of paper tried to blow away more than once, and I had to mark my standing place with a stick that I found, so that I could run back and forth to see the photos as I took them.

Everyone seems to have been doing these lately, and for awhile I debated whether I should do one myself, I have finally decided that Since I found myself with some time to sit down tonight; this bunny will be doing one.

Shape:

I sat down a few weeks ago and sifted through all the shapes I have made since I started 6 years ago, it was fun to see the subtle and major changes that I went through. I often use these sorts of things as reminders to myself, as to why new people need help. (Also why they look so scary!)

As for my shapes, I guess that they started like everyone else's, to tall, to lanky to grotesquely awful to talk about... or look at -and of course I thought I looked brilliant just like every other noob. About the time that I started GMing in CoLA my Avy shrunk by a zillion and I realized that there was no need to be a gigantic-amazonian lady. Thus I suppose very cute -well kinda- ruby was born. Since then it has been years of perfection in the works.

Unlike many other people who enjoy the velumptious look I am not really a fan of it. I tend to go for the very slight curves with small features and petite looks. If I really had to explain why this is, I suppose it is because I am vulumptious in real life, I have all those curves other people seem to want to dawn in SL, (its not all it cracks up to be... let me tell you) So in my fake life here I would rather be seen as a scrawny cute child like girl then as a overly shapely female.

My shape also tends to adjust with each new skin.

Skin

Skins are one of those things that come and go, I use to swear by curio... but because her shop is no longer around I have had to broaden my search... I haven't really found any other shops that I swear by since her... Though I guess the one I use most anymore is Ys & Ys 's Candy skin. That skin makes me profoundly happy and it has so much more definition then most out there now. Just like I have with my eyes recently I have been dabbling a bit with TSG's skin( it happens to be the one I wore in this photo.)

Other then that I am not really into following the trends of skins, I just like what I Like and I actually tend to avoid majorly popular skins that come out, After all whats the fun of being able to be unique, when all you do is follow someones blog to look just like them.

Eyes

I think this is the simplest out of everything, if im not wearing ID eyes, then Im wearing something I got on sale somewhere and I don't even pay attentions. Insufferable dastered to me is just the way I go 99.99 % of the time. About a week ago I bought some TSG eyes, and im not sure how I feel yet about them just yet! They seem to go with more of my pale frail skins.

Lips

Ah I just go with whatever skin designer has the best lips, im not really a makeup fan... So I suppose whatever brand currently has me won for skins is also my lip brand.

Style

Ive never really been a blogger, but I tend to dress a lot of people around me (Males and Females- Most of my close friends, even Cho come to me for ideas of what to wear and where to shop.).

Im a Styler on a budget - I don't have 60k to spend a week on clothing like some people I know do, so you often find me bargain hunting and definitly taking advantage of Demos(Unlike Mr. Bear; who thinks its more beneficial not to waist time hunting, bargaining or DEMOing because he would rather just buy it)

I do know that if someone starts stalking my style, I start making my own products, or I change compleatly just so I dont have a replica. Originalty is key to me.

Hair

Hair I think is much more diverse then the rest of what I buy, and where I shop. I guess the fact that I shop at more hair places, also has to do with the fact that so many people seem to be able to dabble in this area of SL. Currently (Against what most of my friends are saying ) I love the Magika hair ... Its super cute - and I do love super cute things. I am all about the big curls, pink bows and platinum blond hair. Other then Magika I tend to rock some Lamb, Burly, and of course ETD (Now known as E by the new kids of SL). Sometimes I sit and talk to Cho-bear about how much SL has changed since I started 6 years ago. I remember when it was the race to see who could build the best prim hair... However if I reminisce to hard on these times, I start sounding like an SL old woman. (Back in my day .... )

Personality

If I were to try to discribe myself, Id have to say im an honest, loyal dependable person. I like to help people, and I love to talk to people about anything they bring up. I dont deal well with grief, or sorrow and sometimes when im angry I crumble under the pressure. Im not really someone who likes confrontations, ( this doesnt mean I let people walk on me, if someone goes at me, Id rather act then avoid) and I am the first person to stand up for a freind who needs me, But I am also the first to tell them they are in the wrong, and to cut the shit out and appologize.

With all this said; I think I rub some people the wrong way, but Ive always tried to be a very good friend to everyone and anyone who needs me. So why then do I rub people the wrong way? Its simple... when I was a child I was told that any friend worth having, would be honest with me no matter how much it hurt. At the end of the day Honesty is the best policy, and if it hurts you, your likely the one that needed to hear honesty the most.

So sometimes I am brutally honest. I usually have a pretty good reason behind my honesty though, I never do it just to be mean or spiteful. On that note; I think most people who think they can take honesty really cant! they can only take sugar coated honestly... Sadly I am not one to hold my punches.

Personality wise I suppose another big part of me is the part of me who really truly hates pretenders. People who pretend to be nice piss me off. I also hate how they always have excuses and play the victim. If your going to start something, then finish it, don't just copy-paste bits and pieces of logs to people to make other people look like bad guys, Or accuse them of things they didn't do without proof, and then avoid them when they contact you after you leave off-line snarky remarks.

If you cant control the fire, don't start it.

As for what people think when they meet me?

I have been told that I seem shut down anymore.

When I first met my boyfriend over a year ago now, He thought that I was cold and shut down, he told me later that he never even thought we would talk again. When people take the time to get past that exterior wall, and they realize I am like this because a lot of people have burned me, taken advantage of my kindness and worn me out those people often become close friends of mine who enjoy my presence.

All in all I think I am a pretty nice person - that is once you get past that exterior wall.... Other then that if your not trying to bring me down or piss me off intentionally... I normally love everyone.

Forever

Ruby Idora.

Face of Beauty International 2014 Swimsuit Presentation.

The third edition of Face of Beauty International 2014 was held in New Palace Grand Ballroom in Taichung City, Taiwan on 15th of November 2014.

38 contestants participated from all over the world in this event.

Ana Paula Valeria Manzanal Sarmiento from Peru won the best in Swimsuit award.

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Sometimes those sticky songs seem to work into exactly what you are trying to convey.Have faith,Let your joy shine out,Don't hold back, andGive it your all...And if you know me well enough, you know I just love to laugh!

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Face of Beauty International 2014 was held in New Palace Grand Ballroom in Taichung City, Taiwan on 15th of November 2014.

38 contestants participated from all over the world in this event.

Winner - ARGENTINA (Gimena Ghilarducci)

1st Runner-up - FIJI (Nisheeka Lal)

2nd Runner-up - ENGLAND (Stefanie Jayne Williams)

3rd Runner-up - AUSTRALIA (Maddison Clare Sloane)

4th Runner-up - TAIWAN (Xiao-Wwn Chen)

Top 10 Finalist:

Miss Fiji - Nisheeka Lal

Miss Canada - Chrystalle Omaga

Miss Australia - Maddison Clare Sloane

Miss Hungary - Dalma Nyiatrai

Miss England - Stefanie Jayne Williams

Miss Paraguay - Fatima Tatiana Rolin Trombetta

Miss Taiwan - Xiao-Wwn Chen

Miss Russia - Elena Paranchuk

Miss Peru - Ana Paula Valeria Manzanal Sarmiento

Miss Argentina - Gimena Ghilarducci

Special Awards for Face of Beauty International 2014

Best in Swim wear: Miss Peru (Ana Paula Valeria Manzanal Sarmiento)

Miss Friendship: Lesotho (Mohau Mokotjomela)

Online voting: Miss Australia (Maddison Clare Sloane)

Best in Talent: Miss Taiwan (Xiao-Wwn Chen)

Best in Evening Wear: Miss England (Stefanie Jayne Williams)

Best in Interview: Miss Seychelles (Linda Cui)

Iam Me: Miss Myanmar (Thiri Myo Ko)

Best in National Costume: Miss Myanmar (Thiri Myo Ko)

Miss Photogenic: Miss Argentina (Gimena Ghilarducci)

Best in Sports Award: Miss New Zealand (Lydia May Smit)

Miss Tourism: Miss Fiji (Nisheeka Lal)

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