A meaningful image can be technically modest and emotionally clear.

Photographs get graded on what is easy to grade: focus, light, composition, the equipment behind them. None of that is what makes a picture matter years later. A blurry, badly lit frame of the right person on the right afternoon carries something no careful photograph of a stranger can, because the meaning comes from what was happening rather than from how well it was captured.

Stop deleting the imperfect ones. Look through recent photographs, keep the technically poor frames that hold a real moment, and let go of the polished ones that hold nothing.