Day 16 - Pictures are worth a thousand words

As I write these blogs I realize I spend a lot of time on Skype, especially at night. Ever since summer started, some of my YouTube friends and I been having almost nightly Skype video chats that last until about 1 or 2 a.m. This cannot be healthy for my sleep schedule, but if I went to sleep I'm afraid I'll miss everything. Not to brag or anything, but we have some pretty legit conversations.

Tonight amongst all the jokes and laughter we began sharing awkward and silly pictures of our younger selves. At first I had some difficulty locating mine because I was the type of person who hated having my picture taken when I was younger. And if I did have it taken, I didn't post it unless I looked presentable in it. I was and still kind of am a self-conscience person.

But each picture shared got me thinking about the stories behind them. My friends and who they used to be. Who they now are. Myself. How far I've come. Who I was and who I am today. I'm not the same person I was 10 years ago. And In 10 years, I'll be looking back on the pictures that currently find themselves situated on my Facebook.

Now it intrigues [mind you, I can never spell this word right. But I did tonight! woo!] me how cameras work. They capture what the eyes see forever. They take some of our memories, the ones that fade, and they keep them safe for us. And we then look back on them later and it just clicks. Things forgotten have become refreshed. Patterns are acknowledged. Beauty is captured.

All by one click of a button. An import of a memory card. The storing of a hard drive. And it's there. Forever. Until you throw it in the trash. And it's gone.

But when you stumble upon these old memories. You cannot help, but smile. Reminiscing of the good times, the bad times, and the in between times. I realize that what I was self-conscience of before is irrelevant. Who cares what I look like. It's more about the moments. Pictures are worth a thousand words. The stories behind each picture are what really count; let's give them a novel to write about. :]