I am sure we can all relate to a time in our life where we have sat down with our family and glanced over old Kodak photos from our childhood birthday parties, holidays, and vacations. Even thinking about it now, we are instantly filled with nostalgia.

Before you read on, just think about this quote by the famous American photographer Aaron Siskind: "Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."

I can remember it like it was yesterday. It was a rainy day at my grandparents' house and I was child, bored out of my mind. Until my grandfather pulled out and dusted off a large, worn out, leather-bound photo album. He placed it on my lap and told me to gently look through it. The pictures inside were all the ones he had taken his first years living in America.

After I got over how the pictures were in black and white, I started looking closely at each photo. I commented on the style of clothing everyone wore, noticing how the women in the photos hardly wore pants. Then I looked at the scenery. The cars were like the ones I saw in movies like "Grease." The homes were cute and quaint. Everything looked so peaceful.

I really could not believe the tall, handsome man in the photos with the chiseled jaw and charming eyes was the same bald, white bearded, hunchbacked man sitting next to me. My grandfather was so proud of the photos. My main question to him was why he took so many pictures. He simply told me it was because he was so amazed with the technology of a camera itself, and how he loved being able to show and share his pictures with others.

This moment has always stuck with me throughout the years. Pictures tell a story. They capture a moment in time that sometime words cannot fully describe. From that day on I had a new found respect for pictures.

Although more than once I have gone through pictures my parents had taken of me as a child and asked, "Why'd you ever let me dress like that?" or, "Why was I making that face!" But, after I get over being embarrassed of my awkwardness, I can have a good laugh at the pictures. They remind me of a simpler time in my life where clearly my looks weren't the most important thing to me. They take me back to that time of being a carefree child.

I look forward to the days I can sit down with my children and even my grandchildren and show them photos of me from the time I was a child an so on. I get excited when I think about how much the world will have changed by then. I'll get to answer question about why I wore my hair like this or why I posed like that.

We live in a generation where we like to capture all of life's moments on our phone. Snapchat videos, Facebook posts, and Instagram collages. I'll admit, I love sharing pictures over social media. But, I encourage you all to print your photos so that you have a hard copy to hold onto and share throughout the years.