A Picture To Remember

This past week was hard! On Tuesday, I had to say "see ya later" to my best friend and cousin as she left on her mission to Ecuador. The night was fun and I chose to ignore the reality of how this would be last time I saw her in person for a year and a half. We went to the creamery, out to dinner, and the night was filled with craziness, laughs and fun.  We took pictures before the crying started then the time had come. With tears flowing down our faces and a last hug we both said, "See you soon" and went our separate ways. With so many conflicting and overwhelming emotions, I found myself looking at the pictures we had taken and found myself so grateful that I could always have those with me. Not only these but all the other pictures that I have with her and so many other important people to me. It struck me that this experience, while hard, was one I wanted to remember. While looking at the picture still makes me emotional, this picture is so important to me. How grateful I am for a phone that can take pictures so easily and quickly and hold so much behind each of them- so many memories and moments can be captured so simply! I love pictures because they can hold so much meaning to us in one simple frame. I never realized how much of a blessing it is to be able to use this type of media so easily and almost whenever I want. I'm especially grateful for this technology because it gets to capture moments, big and small, and keep them forever. I'm grateful for the advancement of media and all the blessings it allows us to have. While I feel like media is looked at negatively, I think it is so important to realize the positives of media and truly how lucky we are to have this technology. This has been my focus this week- how blessed I am for something that may seem small but is truly one of the best things that I have.