There’s a certain hussy memory to remember, the kind that doesn’t hurt but quietly lingers inside our mind. Like an old scent you can’t name, but you know it’s familiar, or a song that suddenly makes your chest feel crowded. A tune that is familiar but don’t know where. I don’t think these things only happen to me; it must happen to you guys too.
Sometimes, I do wonder if our brains are wired more to feel than to live. We spend so much time replaying things that have already happened like a never-ending movie reel running inside our heads. Maybe, that's what living in the past is. I understand reimaging the good moments and feeling good about the time though.
And maybe that’s why the camera became such an important invention; it gave us control over what to keep.
- Click.
- Flash.
- Pause time.
But here’s the twist: the photo never holds what we think it does. It keeps faces, not feelings, making a point? It freezes moments, not meanings. Those are the things which click when we revisit the photo.
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Love Fades in Life but Not in Pictures
You're frozen in motion
A perfect picture in a frame
No camera ever captured the fights, the misunderstandings, the days you drifted, but it captured the beginning of the good times. Photos are cruel and kind at the same time. They show you what was beautiful without reminding you why it ended or any negative stuff about that moment. Likewise, some photos are associated with bad memory too, and that's a whole different thing with the same base.
I think as we move forward, every past picture is just a memory we don’t tell. Sometimes I scroll through my mobile phone gallery and realize, I’m not revisiting a moment instead I’m revisiting versions of myself which was in that photo.
The Camera Never Lies, But It Never Tells the Truth Either
We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Every picture lies a little, just like us humans. It tells you someone was happy, but not why. It captures a dinner, not the silence that followed after. It saves the smiles, not the actual reasons behind them.
Yet, despite all that, we keep clicking. Because even if it’s incomplete, it’s still “ours”. Maybe that’s the whole point, right? to collect fragments of what was in the past, even if they don’t tell the full story upfront. Because deep down, we are humans and we can collect. Not just things but also moments.
We Feel Old Memories
Despite the BTS of photos, we enjoy looking at them. Even when I look at my old photos, I go through the whole album. Why do I do that? Even I don’t remember people who are in those photos. Still, I see them, and I know you guys must be doing that too. Sometimes, all it takes is a soft lyric like Ed Sheeran's “We keep this love in a photograph…” to pull you back into a version of life you thought you had moved past.
I feel it’s almost unfair how a single picture can hold more emotion than a thousand conversations ever could.
Learn to Honor the Moments
Most of us don’t really realize that the living moment is becoming a memory. We live too fast. Maybe that's why songs like “Photograph” and “Camera” relate to us. Lame jokes, night sky, A hug that lasted a little longer than expected or a goodbye we didn’t know was a goodbye.
Conclusion
As Ed Sheeran says,
“Where our eyes are never closing, hearts are never broken…”
Memories are where everything stays whole & accumulated, even when life moves on.
No one else sees them quite the way we do ourselves. No one feels them the way we felt them in the moments. Our memories are our private museum, aren’t they? Full of moments we visit again and again, sometimes smiling, sometimes aching, sometimes wishing we could step back inside them just one more time or relieve them once again.
But that’s the beauty of it:
- They stay with us.
- They shape us.
- They become us.
So, treasure your moments. Take pictures as much as you can but also live the moments. But I also take mental pictures which you guys do too.
Feel them. Live them.
Because long after the photos fade, the memories will still be there… quietly waiting to be revisited by you in the future.
