Pictures

Have you ever looked at a picture and remembered beyond the tedious details of time, place, and people involved, what you felt at the moment? What transpired before and after that snapshot that transformed -- how you felt or were feeling? the joys, apprehensions, sadness, pain, the memories created by such moments.

How safe is it to look at pictures? Because if its a joyous or memorable occasion we can hang it up in our offices, apartments, even suspend it from awkward places in our cars -- for reminders of good times and happy thoughts. But most importantly, those bad times that we can look at retrospectively as though they have no bearing on our current situation and circumstances -- that's if we even keep such pictures in our collections. How safe we our indeed from those past horrors and trouble times.

It makes me believe that we should take mental pictures, extemporaneously, of how our current worries and problems. So, if we can look at them as a moment in time surrounded by (on one side) infinite amounts of moments lived, and (the other) by infinite amounts of moments to be lived, we're only affected by those sad moments as looking a picture.

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