One Shot Guy

We live in a cellphone world. Where everyone owns a cellphone and every cellphone has a camera which means lots of pictures. Lots of pictures of basic white girls looking into a scenic shot, face swaps from snap-chat or selfies. More often then not people use their phones to take and share pictures instead of actually communication with other people.

And in every group there is the friend who has a selife stick. And we have all been part of a groupie photo and been actually thankful they had that self conceded piece of photography equipment. But often times we are out with the squad and no one has a selfie stick. So in order to document the fun times we have had and prove to the world we are having fun times, we ask someone to take a picture. "Hi, can you take a picture of us?" The person says sure, grabs our phone and takes the picture. And by the term, "picture" we mean "pictures".

One does not simply take one picture anymore. We don't have to worry about film or the cost to develop it. It's better to over document our fun times instead of missing a fun time by taking choice photos. And one time me and my friends went on an adventure and we didn't have the slefie stick friend there. So we asked the nicest looking person there to take our picture. And he gladly did. He took our phone and took a picture.

He took A picture. One. He only took one. Who does that?! Is this man just so confident in his ability to take instagram worthy photos? Is this random man secretly a national geographic photographer and we were just documented by a photo god? After looking at the picture I would say he is none of those. He was just a guy who either had better things to do than take our picture or he realized life is more then just snapping pics of your fun times. Whatever his motives were, sir, I have this to say, take more photos please. You  just click the little button a few times and that is it. Even my mom who still has a flip phone knows that when we ask her to take our picture that is code for "pictures". Out of everyone in the squad that was in the picture, I was the only one who shared it to social media. So this will simply become a memory where we don't have pictures to prove we had fun. All we have will be our stories and this one picture. Stories are nice, but, those don't get likes. Likes, shares and favorites define if a person is living a successful life, right?