An Attempt at Art

So this is my first Photoshop exercise. Up to this point, I had only edited photos with the limited features built into Microsoft Word so my experience was quite limited. I took several hours looking up layering tutorials online to figure out how to get things to look somewhat nice. I think this turned out pretty good. In an attempt to come up with some deep meaning for this self-portrait, I actually found it hard because I'm more of an "open book" type person. So this photo tries to reflect that image of myself, with a pretty, relaxing beach scene in the background. Any thoughts?