What Is A Picture But A Series Of Memories

What is a picture, a snapshot, a photograph? Well, they are the same thing, but are more than that. They are moments, moments frozen in time. A permanent impression on time. Pieces of time that have passed, never to be relived again. They are etched into history. Some to be forgotten with time. They are memories of one’s life. Some happy and some sad. But all in all they all tell a story. While memories might fade or become lost, a picture will fill in the blanks and bring it back to the mind.

Our lives are a series of moments. And photos can help us remember the good and bad times. Mostly the good fun times. We live our lives one day at a time and move forward without thinking about the past. But there are those times that we do decide to look at old photos. And it is those moments that we realize that we are human. That we will once cease to exist. And we cherish those moments and photos.

Some people have photos of family members from many generations old. Those pictures also tell a story. Not always a clear story of what was, but they give us a view into the past of what was life like back in those days. We can learn a lot from looking at old pictures. We learn how trends were and what styles were. We also learn what someone looked like back then compared to now. We learn how people change.

Our lives are mainly a series of snapshots. We do tend, as humans, try to keep a photo journal in a way of our lives. Some people have hardly any pictures to remember with. Some have many. We humans are creatures of habit. And even though time has passed from those old photos, we sometimes tend to be the same person we were back in our old days.

Looking at old photos and videos are our way of going back in the future. It is our way of trying to relive a time passed that could never be again. Some of us also try to relive those days through our children. Showing them how things were and hoping they would understand the life we lived. Although, generations tend to not comprehend they way things were. But there are always similarities.

So, what we see in the pictures, photos, snapshots, are all memories. They are a collection of us as well as others. They tell a story but not the complete story. Where home movies or videos can elaborate more on a specific time of our lives. We need those memories to hold onto because they are not just a part of us, they complete us.

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