For real, take pictures with your friends while you can. I was friends with a guy throughout high school. But then he passed away suddenly at age 22. Only then did I realize we didn’t have a single picture of us together. It was a horrible gut-punch.
It seems like such a silly thing sometimes, but you never know what might happen, or what life might throw at you. You don’t want to end up without a picture when it’s too late to get one. :(
Honestly this is why I stopped teasing shutterbugs and selfie takers. Just realizing that (a) not all selfies are necessarily destined for social media, and (b) the regrettable alternative might be no pictures of friends with you in them, or even no pictures of those you care about, for long stretches of life that memory tends to eventually consolidate.
The shutterbug in the friend group might be the one reason you remember so well the time you spent with them many years later.
For real, take pictures with your friends while you can. I was friends with a guy throughout high school. But then he passed away suddenly at age 22. Only then did I realize we didn’t have a single picture of us together. It was a horrible gut-punch.
It seems like such a silly thing sometimes, but you never know what might happen, or what life might throw at you. You don’t want to end up without a picture when it’s too late to get one. :(
Honestly this is why I stopped teasing shutterbugs and selfie takers. Just realizing that (a) not all selfies are necessarily destined for social media, and (b) the regrettable alternative might be no pictures of friends with you in them, or even no pictures of those you care about, for long stretches of life that memory tends to eventually consolidate.
The shutterbug in the friend group might be the one reason you remember so well the time you spent with them many years later.