In twenty years you’ll want the blurry photos you deleted. Real life was never perfectly framed.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

A photograph is valuable later for what is in it, not for how well it was taken. The ones you delete usually go because somebody looks bad or the framing is off, which are the exact qualities that make a picture feel like the day. In ten years the only thing that matters is who is in the frame.

Stop curating in real time. Keep the bad ones, and take the kind nobody poses for: the car, the kitchen, somebody mid-sentence. Those are the ones you will not be able to retake.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which imperfect photo did you delete and now want back?

MORE IN MEANING & PERSPECTIVE

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.