Listen to Your Mom | Take the Pictures, Dammit (video)

People want to remember you. Because they love you.

Hey, this is just a reminder that you need to make sure that pictures of you exist.

I’m just giving you a minute to give me all the excuses of why you specifically should not take pictures.

Done?

Good.

I realize that someone in your past made you think that you’re a horrendous beast, that you are ugly, that you are too short, too fat, too not… whatever.

Those pictures? They’re not for them.

They’re for the people who love you, who think you’re beautiful, who want to look at your face, even when you’re gone.

So take those pictures. Your family* will thank you.

Love,

Your Mom

* Your family is the group of people you’ve chosen to surround you, not necessarily the one you were born into.