Trip down Memory Lane. Typical.

At any given time, if you ask me if I have my camera, the answer will most likely be yes. I usually always have my camera with me, because I'm worried that the one day I decide I won't need it, I will.

I love taking pictures. Not in the artistic sort of way, even though that is fun too. I just don't have the right camera for that.
I am the type of person who will quote you when you say something funny, and the type of person who will snap a picture of you...while juice is coming out of your nose..because even though it is bad timing, I know it'll be great in probably a week..or two. And I've kinda been lacking in this lately, and I miss it.

But anyways, the reason I was inspired to blog about this was because...I was just looking through old pictures from Slovakia just in case I wanted to include any in the Dogwood scholarship thing I might try and put together. So anywho, I looked through the 6 albums and wow, it feels like a lifetime ago. And even though it does, I still close my eyes and remember so many things like it was just yesterday. Cliche, I know, but it's daa truth.

Anyways, that is definitely something I can expand on and go on and on about, but that is a story for another time. Right now...this is what I want to talk about. It's coming, don't worry.

So after looking through Slovakia pictures, I ended up browsing through outreach retreat photos from last year, and wowee, how far we have come.

And while this picture may not look any different from let's say, a picture like this one,

or these two,

I could probably tell you loads and loads of reason why they're not.
And granted, 10 years from now, or maybe even 5 years from now, these pictures probably will look like they are all the same. Typical old high school pictures.

But really, it's true what they say about a picture being worth thousand words.
And for me, RIGHT NOW, I look at these pictures, and I see a world of difference between each one. And maybe, that sounds overdramatic and cliche. And so, to that, I say, heeello have you met me? I tend to be both. Haha, but really, I think in this case it's daa truth.

You know, after all the trouble I went through getting this blog to look just right, I lost all my deep thoughts in the process. However...I will try and press on and maybe I will rediscover what I was trying to say.

Point was, pictures are a great thing aren't they? They can capture any given moment, and at any time, just looking at one has the power to take you right back to the moment where it was taken. A picture can allow a person to see so many things, feel so many emotions, remember so many different memories, and yet to another person the picture is just a picture.

I don't know about you, but for me, looking at these particular four pictures right after one another is kind of funny. Not ha-ha hilarious, I am laughing my head off kind of funny. But funny in a thoughtful way that just makes me go, "hmmmmm, weird." Make sense? Probably not.

It's just hard to try and re-imagine all the different situations, circumstances and stories, (drama) I see in each picture. And even harder to imagine that it's all taken place in the span of the last year and...four months? Wow, it's really only been a year and four months. Yet in that span of time, I find mysef here...Only four months til graduation, and what almost feels like, a lifetime away. Yeah, okay, overstatement.
But for reals, oh the stories I could tell you! But I won't. Not now anyway.

Just imagine, another year and four months down the road...who knows what'll be different then. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and keep you updated though.
Don't you worry.

Goodnight.

PS. Mel also mentioned that these pictures allow her to see who's changed, and who hasn't. Funny all the things a year can bring. OH, the power of a picture! Alliteration? Perhaps.