Have you ever heard the saying "picture or it didn't happen"? I hate that expression because so many things happen in life, whether there is a picture or not. Everything happens. The good, the bad, the ugly. It all happens whether you take a picture or not. I'll do things that are fun and that I want to, and will, remember forever but, I'll remember it with or without a picture. I'm not the kind of person who worries about snapping a picture. Life is about living, not about taking a picture. Focus on what you're doing. Live in the moment and enjoy your life. Sure, it's nice to have pictures to look at later, and I'm not saying to never take pictures. I am saying to live your life.

When you go on vacation do you actually enjoy your vacation or do you spend your entire vacation taking pictures? Do you go to the aquarium or to putt putt golf, not to play or see the fish, but to get the picture? A picture says a thousand words but the memories last forever.

There are some things that you have to take pictures of. However, instead of taking one or two, people will take hundreds of pictures of the same thing. So many people only see life through the view finder of their camera or through the screens of their phones. Life happens in front of us and all around us. Instead of taking a picture look at the view!

I use Snap Chat a lot, I will admit it, but I use Snap Chat to talk to my friends so they can see what is going on. One of my best friends loves taking pictures of everything and selfies like no other. The next day you know exactly what happened because she has a camera roll with videos and everything. You don't have to be there to feel like you were. With some of my other friends, it's a miracle if we have one picture from an entire night. We just enjoy being together. We get so caught up in each other that we don't even think about taking a picture.

When I look back on fun nights, I don't look for a picture. I know that the best nights are the ones where I lost my phone and never even thought twice about it.