Internet celebrities such as Indy Blue come to mind on the topic of video diaries and vlogs because of her seemingly endless array of aesthetic travel vlogs in exotic places that make you realize you're not living the life you deserve (see example here). That being said, it doesn't mean you have to constantly be doing amazing things to feel like you can vlog and make videos about your life.

It's the little things that matter to each of us and that bring a smile to our faces that we should be working to capture. And while there is a possibility that you'll cringe every time you see the part with you and your best friend holding hands jumping off the side of a boat that you originally filmed for a Boomerang, as long as you loved it at the moment—so what?

As a first-year college student, I can confidently say the past year has been a wild ride, filled with so many major changes like being away from home, making new friends, and so many more things that are molding me into a new person. As college goes on, summers spent at home with family and high school friends will slowly be replaced with summer internships, finding jobs, and other responsibilities that'll push us further into the hell that is becoming an adult.

Upon coming back, I admit I was kind of bummed, wanting to be back in sunny SoCal with the friends I had grown so close to in the past nine months, thinking that I could only be my new college self and that the old me was long gone. But slowly I realized that I loved being at home; I found some old parts of myself that could only be brought up with the people that were there for my awkward phase and the ups and the downs of high school, the people that truly know me best.

There's so much from high school that I wish I had written down, and not necessarily about the big things, like prom or graduation, but the dumb conversations over lunch that made me laugh until my stomach hurt or the hours spent sitting in the car talking about God knows what for hours on end. I don't know about you but I know my memory has gone to shit when some days I can't remember what I had for breakfast. As time goes on, we're inevitably going to forget little things and as our relationships change and outlooks on life diverge, we're going to start feeling different about the people we used to be closest to.

It's a sad reality to wonder if you're going to feel the same way you do about certain people or things forever, but we have to deal with that uncertainty throughout everything we do in life. So with that comes the importance of capturing the moments you have now, to remember what things make you feel the most alive at this stage in your life.

That's why this summer I've dedicated myself to recording a video a day just of whatever I'm doing and of whoever I'm with (even if it's literally just me and a couple of friends sitting in the car trying to figure out where to eat). I use 1 Second Everyday, an app that lets you pick videos a specific day in your camera roll and save it as the 1-second clip for that day. The app uses a calendar format to keep you on track and by the end of your desired period of time, you can compile all the clips together into a slideshow of your trip, summer, or year.

For the past two weeks at home, I've been doing this and looking back at the videos reminds me how grateful I am for the people in my life and for all the good times that have come my way. At the same time, it keeps me grounded knowing that I need so many people to make up who I am. So make some videos, post them on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, whatever or keep them for yourself. Just take a second everyday to realize how special that moment is and just LIVE in it.