Old photos are nice to visit. Don’t try to live in them.

Memory keeps the best frames and quietly discards the dull ones, so the past you scroll through is a highlights reel running against your unedited present. That was never a fair matchup, and it can make a perfectly decent year look like a decline. Visiting is good. Moving in means measuring every new day against footage that was already cut.

Look at the old pictures when you want to, then go and make one. Take a photo this week of something small and current. In two years it will be the thing you miss.