A Lifetime of Memories
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06:02:14 am on July 6, 2006 | # |
In a conversation with a co-worker today, we started discussing memories. I made the observation that my kids will not have a hard time remember things like Kindergarten graduation. Since I have tens of thousands of digital photos publicly available on Flickr, their life is pretty well documented. Since they will have this media (photos and video) of their life to look back on and share with others, will their memories become lazy?
It has become more difficult and time consuming to delete pictures then it is to just store them. Every time my mom visits, she takes as many - if not more - photos and then sends them to me on CD. I also will copy the digital photos off my sister’s memory stick or from time to time an aunts. I don’t think anyone will fault me for trying to collect as many photos as possible but again, what kind of effect will this have?
I don’t have thousands of photos of me as a kid. The few I have spark some memories and most don’t. But if I had every major event documented from birth to high school graduation, would I be the same person?
Maybe I would look back on pictures and remember how I was as a person during that time. If I did that often enough, maybe I would change my mannerisms and thoughts to try and get back to that fond feeling. I would constantly be trying to relive a time in the past rather then look forward to what the future held.
Maybe I would see myself as someone that I wanted to forget. I would alter my personality to be different and hopefully better. I could learn from my past mistakes and move on.
Maybe I’m over thinking the whole thing and really what I am talking about is memories and, photos or no photos, we all learn from our memories and move on.
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