My name is Savannah Jaye.
I'm a photo student at Savannah College of Art and Design.
I have a passion for people and their stories.
I'm a writer, photographer, and wanderer, but I'm not sure in which order.
I'm living my dream and interning for TWLOHA this spring.
What you read on this blog are my thoughts and my words, and are in no way endorsed or sponsored by TWLOHA.
I'm not there yet, but I'm past the start.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
on being different: exceptions vs. rules.
Maybe the problem was that for just a second I actually believed it.
For a moment I allowed myself to think that I could be an exception to all of the rules that have been entrenched into society for centuries. I was the cyclist who left the helmet at home, the driver who forgot to buckle the seatbelt, the child who talked to strangers, and the girl who thought she was different.
The irony is, of course, that as soon as you begin to feel comfortable being the exception something comes along to remind you of why there was that rule in the first place. You’re no longer different: you are just like every other person that fell for that false sense of security over the ages.
What I’ve learned?
I don’t want to just be different anymore.
I wanted to be different because I thought that would make me important and special, and ultimately I all I ever really wanted was to feel like I could be important and special to someone, at some point. What I realize now though, is that I don’t need to be different to prove my worth.
But more importantly, I’ve discovered what we needed wasn’t for us to feel different than we had before, but for us to be different than who we were before.
