Document Everything

We all may have that one friend who keeps on taking pictures and pulling out their cameras during both special and random moments. You are not going to know how valuable these pictures and videos are until they somehow slowly surface years down the line.

Memories

I personally enjoy reminiscing with friends over stories we may have had back in school. It makes you somehow go back and relive those moments, you shed light upon a part of you that was forgotten about by your present.

How good does it feel for you to see an old picture of yourself, does it not make you wonder what you were doing that day? Where you went? How were you feeling? What you had for breakfast?

As cliché as it is, life is very short. A quick exercise is trying to recollect some of your memories. The beginning of COVID-19 was 3 years ago. Hoverboards were popular 8 years ago, mine has been gathering dust ever since. The first iPad was released 12 years ago. This just shows you how fast time actually goes, your goal now is to capture it.

My Plan on Capturing Time

My plan is to capture moments with my family, my friends and myself. Store them somewhere and dust them off in some years. I want to be able to show my kids and my grandkids how I lived and what I did. The only taste we have from the past is the stories our grandparents tell us, there were not a lot of images or videos to showcase their stories. I want to ensure that my kids and grandkids can dust off my blog and read what I was writing about. Dust off my journals to learn about what I was thinking. Dust off my pictures and videos to see how we did things. Some of you might not think of this as a big deal, but I truly feel once the time comes, everyone would have wished that they had documented some parts of their lives, their stories and their thoughts.

One reason why this holds a lot of meaning to me is because I do not know a lot about my great-grandfather, I do not know much about how he was or how he looked like. I do know that he was a writer (this may explain why I like writing as well 😂). It was said that he had several books and journals which he has written and stored. Unfortunately, the texts were not in a good condition and thrown away at sea after his death. It only makes me wonder what he documented, especially back during a time where literacy was not as common as today.

This little story makes me wonder, how many people share the same experience? How many of us could have learnt something from our ancestors? But due to the lack of documentation, we were not able to.

And know, it\’s within your hands

So… what should you do? You could either forget everything I have mentioned and move on with your day

or

You could commit to the idea of documenting your life and have visual stories to convey to the generations after you, even after your death.

Choose wisely.