Love through pictures

Most people on Facebook follow at least one photographers page. And more than likely that photographer has shot a certain person or family multiple times. You grow close in your own Facebook stalker way to these people. You celebrated the engagement, drooled over their wedding, marveled t the cutest baby bump you have ever seen and cried at the birth of their child. You see these people at their best and are more than happy to see them that way. You feel like you know them, you feel like they are family. But when something happens to the family, your heart aches, you cry because they are in pain. This is something I have recently found out that has happened to me. I watched this family grow through pictures on a photographers Facebook. A family I didn't really even know and only talked to once through email. This family suffered a hard loss today and when I found out I could do nothing but cry. Given I have a sensitivity to this type of loss, I didn't expect it to effect me this hard. I guess in a way it's a good thing. It brings people closer together. A more tight knit family. The point in trying to make with this, if there is really is a point is that photographer pages have opened us up to feel kinder for people and that makes me happy. Happy for this family that got this immense outpouring of love, prayers and thoughts. I am one that will continue to watch you through pictures knowing you will get through this and I can't wait to see your smiling face in new pictures. Until then I am going to keep this girl a little closer to my heart so she knows I love her more than anything.