Confession #5: A picture is worth more than 1,000 words

Pictures.
Photographs.
Photos.
Pics.
Snapshots.
Whatever your favorite noun is, our society is obsessed with them. We take photos of everything, in every part of our lives. Then we share all these things to everyone in the world over the internet. Why do we do this? Why do we put almost every single part of our personal lives out there for the world to see? Why? Because we are obsessed with our lives, the lives of those around us, and finally have the means readily available for everyone to preserve different pieces of their lives for the future.

Look around you. How many objects can you see or grab that have a camera on them? My count is 11, and I am just in my bedroom. I have my Kinect for Xbox, my current phone, my old phone, my other old phone, my tablet, my laptop, my old laptop, my iPod, my 3DS, and two cameras. That is a LOT of stuff to take pictures with (okay, okay, technically Kinect is used to play games and make video calls but still).

Pictures are wonderful, they capture moments both good (like above) and bad and provide a way to immortalize a moment for future posterity. I personally love photographs because I love the art of photography and all of the intricacies that go into getting a stunning picture to keep forever. I share my pictures everywhere and take them with everything that I can. How crazy is the number of devices that now have camera capabilities? We are almost unable to miss capturing any moment we want, which is, pardon the colloquial phrase, freaking awesome!

My whole life (almost) will be preserved somewhere in the annals of the internet basically forever. In 30 years I will be able to look back at my Facebook or Twitter or Flickr account and see what I was doing in college, where I was going, who I was with. Vintage photographs are quickly becoming a thing of the past (pardon my pun) due to the ever increasing storage and "cloud" space available to everyday people. As long as I use the internet, my life will, pretty much, be there for me to look back on whenever I want.

Looking back into the past is wonderful; the sense of nostalgia it creates and the memories it unearths are priceless. Even now, being almost 20, I'm looking back at my life by way of pictures from when I was growing up and am astounded by the things I remember and how much I have changed over the years (just look at that adorable blond boy in the boat up there).

I'm not trying to make some big, grand point here with this post, I'm merely just enthusing about how great modern technology is. I am, however, telling you all to do something. Go out and take pictures. I don't care if you are good at is or if you have fancy schmancy camera gear, just go record your life. In a few decades, or even years when you look back on it, you'll be quite glad you preserved some things. I mean, who wouldn't want to remember moments like this?