Stop hiding behind the camera at family stuff. One day someone will want proof you were there.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
The person holding the camera disappears from the record. Years of gatherings can pass with you present at every one and visible in none, which is an odd sort of absence to create on purpose. Whatever makes you avoid the frame now will matter much less later than being missing from it.
Hand the phone to somebody else this time and get in. Once per occasion is plenty. You are not making a picture for today, you are leaving evidence for people who will want it.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
When did you last let someone photograph you at a gathering?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- Your grandpa’s old hammer still works. Build things that are useful enough to pass down.
- Summers felt endless when you were ten because everything was new. You can still get that back by trying new things.
- Every ordinary body contains systems working continuously without asking conscious permission.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.