Two weeks ago I discovered that I could not find any of BabyBird's original photos from birth to three months! Can you imagine the panic that ensued? I spent hours trying to recover them, dreamt about them all night, and eventually discovered them the next day on a hard drive I thought I had checked but hadn't. Phew.
I remember doing this once before in Bangladesh with one of my favourite albums {The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. It's really a very very good album}. That time I was mortified. Even though I owned the cd and it was back home in New Zealand. The loss made me feel really far away from home. Alana introduced me to windows search and I found it dumped into another folder. Thank you Alana. Meanwhile Alana could not even use her entire hard drive full of travel photos and music because she lost the specific USB chord and I was crying about an album of music?
This time I told myself Annabel...you don't need those photos! You'll be able to get a ton of them offline because you're always uploading the ones you love. You have all of the memories...etc. etc. etc. but I felt sad anyway. I'm beginning to think I spend too much time with those photos.
No not at all! Don't underestimate the value of photos. One of my clients poors over all her old photo albums all the time, it's her only link from her confused crazy world, to our world today and her past because she has frontal lobal dementia. If she didn't have those photos she wouldn't recognise any of her family or old friends
ReplyDeleteWhen you're our age looking back every photo is valuable. You never feel like you took too many or have enough.
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