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good motto, I look back at pictures and go did I really wear that???????? but generally they have all captured a great moment. Sometimes tho, I wish i could take myself back there in time and relive it.. just because I missed out on capturing something. Its always better in hindsight, amazing where life takes you!
When I look back, I always laugh at where I thought I'd be when I was my current age. Love your motto :)
Charis, Haha, yeah--it is. I like to look back and giggle. I miss those days, but I'm excited for those to come at the same time. The pictures just remind me to always have a camera on hand. FI and I are registering for a video camera --I hope we get it so we can start our own family videos soon!
I never liked video cameras, but I got a videographer for our wedding day, it maybe just the start of our video era. Good idea to register one!
I havent done my register yet.. I should my wedding is just the week before yours. Are you ahead in the planning stakes or am I behind on this one? :)
@Tooth---RIGHT? I used to think, by 25 I'll be pregnant with my first and I always jsut assumed I'd have money like flowing in somehow and everything would be perfect. Well, here I am, 25. (avoiding pregnancy like the plague) Things are PERFECT, but a much different perfect than I anticipated. I love the motto because I used to get caught up in thinking "life will get AWESOME when I _______________" (graduate from college, get married, start my career, lose weight.......etc). I'm glad I learned that life is no fun when you live like that!
No! I'm not fully registered yet---I got started because I am going through a dry spell in planning and just have the time to do it. It's more fun than I thought it would be!
Exactly! We should all remember to breathe & go with the flow. I'm turning 25 in October and am having a quarter of a century party. Plan on having people wear ugly "grandma" sweaters too.
@Virgina - Absolutely. My sister is 16, so I always think what I thought I was going to be like at 24 when I was 16. I was sure I'd be married and with a baby (or at least be pregnant in the near future) with a house and a car and a little white fence. Haha! I suppose 24 sounded really old to me when I was 16! I am definitely working on enjoying life at every stage/moment too. Telling myself I'll love my body when I'm 15 pounds lighter doesn't make for a happy girl!
@Emily--HAHAH AWESOME! Count me in!!!!!!!
@Tooth-Agreed. We need to be happy, with or without 15 lbs! :) We can do it!
I do this all the time with photos! I distinctly remember thinking, "Ew, I look so ugly/tired/sickly/fat/awkward/WHATEVER in this photo!" when I was 15, 16, 17, 18...now I look back on those photos and think, what was I on?! I wish I could look that good now! Like my senior photos, which were taken when I was 16. I hated them SO MUCH when they were taken, hated my mom for buying such an expensive package and hanging them everywhere, but now I really like them (although they make me feel a bit wistful for when I was younger, cuter, and thinner). But I must be weird because I never really thought about where I'd be in 2 or 5 or 10 years. So I can't compare how things turned out with how I expected them to. :(
Watch what you eat to be healthy not to be skinny. We all have a weight where our bodies are naturally "happy"...its higher for some and lower for some. In college I was about 10 pounds lighter than I am now, but I was working out all the time & really limiting what I ate. My quality of life (short term & long term) and health is really important to me!
"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - Real Life.
But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through fiirst,
some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.
At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness.
Happiness is the way.
So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination!"
Souza
@virginiamarie I hear ya ;)
@ Virginia - Hey! I was expecting to get on here and see a crazy pic of you or something!! LOL. I was reading and I was like "uh oh, on a keg at her birthday party" but when I scrolled down the post ended :P
I know what you mean though. When I was in middle school, I thought I looked so awkward and ugly, then when I got to high school and found pics of me from middle school, I was like OMG I was so skinny & had GREAT skin (something I do NOT have anymore).
What I hated, was when I was a LOT bigger (60 lbs bigger) several years ago, and people would see a thin pic of me from HS and go "That's you?! That doesn't even LOOK like you!" Well, those comments really helped to motivate me back in the day and now I am much smaller and apparently more recognizable :)
@ sulli - I love the quote!
I love looking at pictures from early college, as girls were still wearing shirts that just hit at the waistband ... or higher. It makes me giggle (and want to do sit ups 
)
When I was a teen, I always felt awkward and huge. But looking back on photos from that era, I was actually pretty small, I was just larger then my friends, my mom, and my sister. I don't ever want to go back, but I do wish I could tell my younger self to relax and just enjoy life, instead of being so wrapped up in everything.
I think old photos tend to make us see things more as they were then what we thought- without self-flaiing for our "failures." They teach us to be more joyful in the moment.
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...sitting on a keg in a bathtub at my 20th birfday party. Being that my 25th birfday is in a week..it got me thinking: I HATED that picture of me back in the day. I thought I looked like a horrible, ugly, massive blob. But now, I look at it and think "hey, I looked pretty darn good!"
Makes me wonder what I'll be thinking five years from now, on my 30th birfday. I hope I like where I'm at and where I'm going....
This year, I'm giving myself the challege of not taking things for granted, enjoying where I'm at in life and stopping to smell the roses every now and then!
Afterall, "Life is a journey, not a destination".