You’ll laugh at your braces photos someday. Take them anyway. Embarrassing pictures become the best ones.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
The pictures you want deleted are the ones that end up mattering, because they contain what the moment was actually like rather than the version you would have curated. A perfect photograph remembers almost nothing. An unflattering one remembers the room, the people, the haircut and the year.
Take the photo even when you look wrong in it, and keep the ones you are tempted to delete. Print two or three at some point, since printed pictures survive phones. Future you will not care how your teeth looked.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which picture will you be glad someone insisted on?
MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY
- Some of the best years of your life won’t look impressive on paper. That’s not how you’ll measure them anyway.
- Your grandfather didn’t hand you his tools so they’d sit in a box. Make something.
- Your baby photos exist because someone thought you were worth remembering before you’d done anything at all.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.