Feeling Nostalgic

Is it just me or do people not take as many pictures anymore? Sure there's Instagram, where users post photos of their food or the selfie of the day. The most common types of photos that I see on social networking sites are of groups of people who get together and smile. Don't get me wrong, I've taken many of those pictures and they always look nice! But what's the point of having a photo album where each photograph includes one person posing with everyone else at the event? Doesn't that get boring to look at? I don't think it even captures what was even happening at the event! It's just a bunch of people smiling. 

My family used to be huge on picture taking. We had an entire dresser drawer in our house that was dedicated to photos of our childhood, and our parent's childhood. There would be so many days where we would sit around and take out a pile of photos to look at and reminisce in the memories. But what's special about those old photos is that most of them are funny or candid shots! They're not all stiff poses. We don't always care about taking pictures of true moments that we want to remember, we're more concerned about looking good in the picture because it will be posted online for everyone to see. 

Care less about everyone doing the same pose, whether or not you're on your good side, or whether or not remembered to put your arm on your waist so it looks thinner (you know who you are). Take candid shots of everything that is happening so you remember more than what you wore that day, and you actually remember how you felt. 

Whether or not you want an example, here's a candid  throwback of my sister and I around 14 or so years ago.