Captured Memories

It has become so easy these days to collect pictures of every moment.Just a few clicks,transfer them to your storage device and let them be lost into oblivion or may be post them on  Facebook,Instagram,Tumblr,Twitter etc, gather comments and likes from friends and then forget about them.

Remember those times when clicking pictures was an occasional event and not something we did every second ? We clicked pictures to capture memories of something that brought back old memories or maybe reminded you of some happy moment you felt a long time ago. We did not just click photos to inform our friends about the weather outside our window which they are obviously aware of.

Pictures these days have lost the charm that they used to hold before (I’m not drunk).Everyone looks beautiful in pictures and the subject of most of our pictures these days is ourselves. The “selfie” craze has spread like a mad epidemic and has forced everyone to document each and every second of their lives.  These photos however, are not worth saving.

Sure you can go back to them and fawn over your own photo shopped beauty, but what about those rare impromptu clicks in which you aren't posing like a kingfisher model and are probably laughing like a raccoon with food falling out of your mouth with your best friends around you rolling on the floor in laughter?

You’ll probably think of yourself as the ugliest person in town, but you will surely remember that moment and smile. That one moment of mirth that was captured without your knowledge, without any filters or edits which you probably didn't care to do because it wasn't “post-worthy”, but is capable of making you relive that moment and feel that happiness again. That is the power of a genuine photograph.

I’m not asking you to not click selfies or not send Snapchats. All I am asking you to do is to not delete those gross-looking, ugly as fennel (I won’t swear on my blog) photos. Keep them in a separate folder, away from the eyes of the social media audience, just for you to see and be happy. After all, these are the Captured Memories that will make you happier than your oh-so-gorgeous duck-face selfies.