Through the camera lens

While I was looking through our photo albums for my son's school project, I had a visit through memory lane.

Isn't it funny how memories comes back to you when looking at a photo of someone.

I saw my life's journey from a young child to now, and how so much has changed, how I have changed.

It's like a movie, your own movie playing off in front of you.

Your disappointments, laughter, sadness, regrets, friendship, family all while you are viewing yourself in a different way.

You realize then, that you should have gave yourself some slack, maybe had fun a little more or even just loved yourself.

You see people that are still here and people that has left us. Some of those people treaded deep steps in our lives, just to leave us with a loss in our hearts. And we just for one more extra day that we could spend with them, hoping to fill that emptiness just a little bit.

I thought about so many moments that I spent with people, people who are very dear to me, and means so much to me, but I don't have photo's of them or the memories, only the memories in my mind.

And it came to mind, that what if one they my memories have faded and no photo to look at, how will I remember those that made a difference in my life? How will I remember the friends, the family, the comers and goers and the passer by? How will I remember the moments that shaped me?

So my advice, take the photo's, because just as people come, they can go again and the photo may be the only thing you have left.

There is this quote I saw one day

"Take the picture, even if it's not a good one.

It's a moment frozen in time, a memory to last a lifetime"

Through the camera lens.

Written by ME

1. February 2024