I am someone who has always loved taking pictures of just about everything, to be completely honest. Let's just say the Polaroid camera I owned at seven saw a great deal of office supplies and Pooh Bear--oops. Here are some of the beautiful memories I've captured, along with my photograhic-philosophy.

But, as a life-long lover of pixels, I've received a remarkable amount of opinions around pictures and photography. I am and have never been a true photographer, but I have always loved taking pictures.

I've always been the one getting the group together for a photo, taking out the camera to snap a photo of a beautiful scene, or even catch an indispensable moment to look back on forever.

Though, I think people have the idea of photos all wrong. The idea of the "selfie" had taken its lead in the social media world and there has been a major revolt against pixelating our world.

While I understand the petty Selfie Queen's have given pictures a bad name, photos do not have to be of a narcissistic nature. Actually they are quite sentimental in my eyes. After all, there are some people who live only in our hearts and cameras now--if that's not valuable I don't know what is.

So, I encourage us to take on a different angle and possibly a new opinion of pictures. They are beautiful, at times, remarkable records of our memories.

Unfortunately, no matter how well be believe we may remember a moment we can never go back and see it in our eyes once again. Personally, I think viewing a memory through a camera lens is much better then never seeing it again.

The selfie-era does not need to destroy our will to take pictures, nor our thrill to make moments last for years and even decades, rather than seconds.

I know I only regret photos I did not take over the years, surely not the ones I have taken; even those that were not so pleasing to the eye were still memories, laughable moments, and entirely worth the nostalgia--or perhaps, brief humiliation.

Essentially, one day, my memory may fail me but I certainly do not want to fail myself. I know that in the future, no matter how distant, I will cherish every picture I have ever taken. Because when all is said in done, those pictures will not only be pixels--they will have been my life, and surely, I never want to forget it.

One day everything and everyone is gonna change, that's inevitable. So take pictures of the trees, the ocean, even the clouds in the sky. Make your friends and family get together for group photos, videotape your niece at nine months or your cousin at two--one day it will all be different, but remember to take pictures then too.