For those that are sentimental, you may understand what I’m about to say. For those of you that are, I hope that if nothing else you enjoy my perspective on what I consider a powerful appreciation.
I’ve always enjoyed pictures. Never really knew why, but there was something that was very appreciative and truthful about them. It’s true we look back at a picture and can almost feel what we were feeling or think what we were thinking. As we get older, we may look at pictures and feel ambivalence. A bitter sweetness that serves as a reminder that those times are gone and yet is a satisfaction in trying to reconnect with the memory.
Pictures undiscovered can deliver emotions on the spot. At the very least they are a reminder or a memory. At most maybe they are powerful and withstand the test of time and like a video can re-capture the moment’s gone by. For some, pictures might be painful and something to avoid. I can understand that and respect that.
Either way, we can’t underestimate how authentic they are. Today much like people, they are lost in their phone. I don’t know of many people that still develop them and put them in a photo album or display. For most of us they are by the thousand and stored within the storage capacity of the phone.
Pictures offer me more good than they do negative. I encourage you to evaluate the importance of a single moment in time, a memory. If nothing else they can be left behind for our loved ones to have a chance to look at.
The ironic part is I don’t particularly enjoy being in pictures, or having my picture taken nearly as much as I do looking at them, reflecting, pausing, and appreciating the days gone by. They say a picture is worth 1000 words. I would add one more… Powerful.
Dedicated Purpose 