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Have you ever told your family members that you hate pictures when you saw the flash, that you look bad on photos and refuse to take any. Hiding you face away and trying not to be caught on camera. Well today I hope you change your mind after reading this, I hope today you will understand that a picture is a precious memory that you will leave behind when you are gone. Sounds depressing right, don’t skip through though, keep reading.
On Monday morning, we woke to an ordinary day, unknown to what was to come, as it was a public holiday, we decided to sleep in and take it easy.
Around 1:00 PM things changed, we received a message that a family member had passed away. These days death is taken so lightly, like oh well… another COVID Victim! Once I received this news I felt my heart break into a thousand pieces. This was my cousin, one of the rare few people that actually understood me, he held a position of high respect in my eyes and still does, a gentle and humble soul that this world will definitely miss. I sat there for a few moments, tears streaming down my face wondering how? Why? The usual questions that flow through our minds when someone we love passes on. Then a reality hit me like a speeding car, while I may have had several conversations with my cousin, we would chat and call each other to catch up as often as we could. Before COVID we would meet at family events, more like meet at family funerals. I realized that I had no pictures with my cousin, except for one picture we took when my daughter was born in 2006. I searched my memory and tried to think if we had taken any digital pictures over the years and we had not, we didn’t see each other in years and only stayed in contact via whats app and phone calls. I felt sadder than ever, knowing that I have nothing to look back on except one picture we took many years ago. While we have tons of memories, good laughs, emotional talks and so many more moments where he grew in my eyes as a role model, we never captured those moments. These days one can’t even attend a family funeral and have a normal sense of closure, its painful to know that we took life for granted and will never get any of those moments back.
So next time someone wants to take a picture of you, no matter how you look or what you doing, smile, take the picture and cherish it, one day those pictures will be the slideshow of your life.
© kesegiemoodley
Have you ever told your family members that you hate pictures when you saw the flash, that you look bad on photos and refuse to take any. Hiding you face away and trying not to be caught on camera. Well today I hope you change your mind after reading this, I hope today you will understand that a picture is a precious memory that you will leave behind when you are gone. Sounds depressing right, don’t skip through though, keep reading.
On Monday morning, we woke to an ordinary day, unknown to what was to come, as it was a public holiday, we decided to sleep in and take it easy.
Around 1:00 PM things changed, we received a message that a family member had passed away. These days death is taken so lightly, like oh well… another COVID Victim! Once I received this news I felt my heart break into a thousand pieces. This was my cousin, one of the rare few people that actually understood me, he held a position of high respect in my eyes and still does, a gentle and humble soul that this world will definitely miss. I sat there for a few moments, tears streaming down my face wondering how? Why? The usual questions that flow through our minds when someone we love passes on. Then a reality hit me like a speeding car, while I may have had several conversations with my cousin, we would chat and call each other to catch up as often as we could. Before COVID we would meet at family events, more like meet at family funerals. I realized that I had no pictures with my cousin, except for one picture we took when my daughter was born in 2006. I searched my memory and tried to think if we had taken any digital pictures over the years and we had not, we didn’t see each other in years and only stayed in contact via whats app and phone calls. I felt sadder than ever, knowing that I have nothing to look back on except one picture we took many years ago. While we have tons of memories, good laughs, emotional talks and so many more moments where he grew in my eyes as a role model, we never captured those moments. These days one can’t even attend a family funeral and have a normal sense of closure, its painful to know that we took life for granted and will never get any of those moments back.
So next time someone wants to take a picture of you, no matter how you look or what you doing, smile, take the picture and cherish it, one day those pictures will be the slideshow of your life.
© kesegiemoodley
