Take More Pictures!
Okay, I missed writing this in May, and it is a few days late so I do apologise. Let's get started then. One of the things looking back a few years I regret doing enough is taking pictures. All the time that went by and I look through my photo album and I didn’t really take any pictures.
When I start looking at buying a new phone the camera was always something I disregarded. I never really needed it because I always thought, “what do I have to take pictures of?”. I rarely go on holidays and I don’t really have enough ‘take a picture’ moments. I only came to realise the importance of pictures near the end of 2018 starting my final year at university. Sometimes when I am bored I often open the Google Pictures app on my phone and just go through random pictures. What’s great about this app is that it contains all your photos from your phone so the photos I took on my first phone to my current phone are all accessible from this app.
When I look back at the photos and I see there were large gaps between pictures. I never really cared about taking pictures. I was always under the impression you only took pictures just to upload them to your social media and being someone who doesn’t really use a personal social media account this didn’t really matter to me. It was only when I began going to the gym and started taking care of my body. I wanted to have progress pictures to look back on and now when I do even though it isn’t an extreme difference I can see the changes in my body from a year on.
I also decided to take pictures of my surroundings more. This is due to probably me finishing university and that sort of being the end to my education life. I just felt for the sake of nostalgia I’ll be able to look a back at simple images of when I was in a lab or in a lecture and that will set off different memories. Looking back I do have that regret of not taking pictures whilst at college or school as I feel like I’m forgetting what that even looked like but I’m happy I realised that. I could probably write so much more about this but it’s hard getting all my thoughts organised so, I’ll probably end it here. Maybe in the future, I should try and organise my writing and have a structure. I’ll try and work on that.
So, to end this all, just don’t stop taking pictures. Take pictures of everything and anything. People in your life, family and friends, your environment, your everyday life, even the clothes you wear. As the old saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words”, the memories pictures can bring which you can have and keep forever through the good times and bad.
P.S — I’m writing this on the 25th June and I know that is so bad of me considering I should be writing my June article right now but if I get 12/12 done this year I’ll have reached that goal and that what I am focussing now on. I just want to first create the habit of writing not worrying about what I’m writing or whether it is good or not. I do not care about that, I know no one is reading this, I am doing it because I actually enjoy it.
