This is why you should start taking more pictures

Saksham Jain
3 min readMar 29, 2022

To be honest I am also one of those who doesn’t likes to take picture and gets irritated when someone wants to take a way too many pictures on a trip or at a restaurant. I have destroyed the food before the so called food vlogger could take pictures of it and post it on Instagram. And because of this I have pissed many people.

Well this is article is not about my personal experience and more about why I and you too should start taking pictures.

The main reason I started taking pictures is because one day I needed a few picture with my family for something important and when I surfed through my gallery I could barely find any good images of me with my family. My whole phone was filled with memes and screenshots which I rarely see.

At that point I felt sad and regreted that I couldn’t get any good pics with my family, at that point I hated myself for not collecting any memories of places and moments I had with my family.

Just like this sooner or later you too would realise and regret not taking much pictures as once you get old these pics which irritated you the most would be the only memories of what you have done in your life, you might forget about memories in your brain but the images you have collected and saved till date would remind you of it. You might have old pictures of yours right now and believe me or not but you would lie if you say that you don’t feel nostalgic and good after seeing those pictures.

By this I don’t mean that you should stop living in the moment and just start taking pictures instead of feeling it yourself, it would be the dumbest thing you could do as you would ruin your present worrying about your future. You should take pics but not just too much to annoy someone, for example if you are going to a wedding then take 10–15 pictures instead of taking 100s of pictures like most Indians.

You should try to take more natural photos instead of that damn scripted fake smile because natural pics you take at your home would give you more nostalgia than model type pics.

Conclusion

You should enjoy the moment you are living and also take images in the background but not just too much.

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Saksham Jain

Indian | Student | History is a vast early warning system.