Do you like documenting life through photos, videos, or writing?

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I don’t know… I think there’s something sweet about wanting to preserve pieces of your life, even the ordinary ones.

I know some people take photos of everything, some record little videos… and some write their thoughts down so they can remember how certain moments felt. Some people prefer to just enjoy life without doing any of that though.

Which way feels most natural to you?

LaFemmeFatale_1 · Accepted Answer

It’s a lovely question…

I actually don’t quite… And then I often regret…

There was this cinematic moment at 21, when I left my country and went to become an expat and everyone I loved, all my life, all my people were in the airport, waving me.

And I was going upstairs to the security check, in our airport there’s an area, like a balcony of a sort, where you can still see the people waiting downstairs and before my flight I went there to have a look at them one last time before going for years.

And I looked at them, a bunch of them together, smiling, waving, looking at me… And I thought “Everything I love is right here… And I am leaving”

I wanted to take a photo badly… I wanted to capture that moment forever, but then I thought “Maybe I should just look, and try to remember this moment as if my eye is a camera, because if it becomes an actual photograph- this moment might fade… But it’s the most beautiful thing I have ever seen… To keep it that way, maybe I should leave if like a memory, to never be able to see it, but never be able to forget either…”

I was struggling with that decision, until I finally decided to not take a photo… I looked at them like a thirsty and a starving man looks at the oasis in the desert. And I remember that moment, everytime I do - It brings tears to my eyes…

My grandparents are now gone…

I wish I have taken a photo…

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

Since Google can make prints in any size from my phone's photos, I have a lot of pictures now that I are actually framed and hung up so I can enjoy looking at them.

That's so much better than looking at a picture on a phone for a few seconds and then POOF!! IT'S GONE!!

Google sends them to you in the mail. 📬

ohsheeT · Accepted Answer

There are moments it time
Where I will read something and it makes me think

And whatever might be that I read I will either write a poem or I will Almost Do like a my take on it to try to understand and take it to a deeper level

Sometimes I feel like I hear something or I feel something and I just have to write about it

The thing that kind of blows me away is the things that I do write about

Or what I'm thinking about

Is something that will come back through either media

Like a new understanding that some scientists have found or whatever and it will be about the same thing that I had written about or I was thinking about kind of blows me away sometimes

And then there's moments in time where for a half a day everything's a poem to me everything I'm thinking about everything I'm saying it's kind of funny I will even ask a question sometimes that way just because that's the way it's coming out or let's say you DM me I would answer you like in a poem type wording of whatever it is I was writing about to you if that made sense lol

Telekinetic-Potato · Accepted Answer

I get mad at myself sometimes for not taking more pictures/videos/being more disciplined with my journal.

I get caught up in life. Sometimes I get so busy I have to spend a day or two sleeping or if I can't, I got to spend even longer taking naps whenever I can.

I've had a lot of cool experiences but I've forgotten a ton of them. Like a few weeks ago someone reminded me that I abandoned a car that broke down because I had a couple beers on my breath (I do not drive drunk, nobody should do that) and at first I'm denying it because I don't remember this at all but everything about the situation and what they remember saying sounded like stuff I'd say and do so... I guess it would have been funny to have some videos from that night.

I'm still not sure if that actually happened though 😂

Crimsyjo · Answer

I used to journal a lot and I do have photos and videos but I don't excessively store memories like that because I also want to live in the now and enjoy things. For instance 2-3 pics at a birthday or Christmas event is enough to mark it. Not spending whole time worrying about future perception and if it will look like a good one. Let it BE a good one.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

I'm inadvertently documenting because I'm often sharing texts, audios, pictures and videos to my group chats and/or to my girlfriend...

But it doesn't mean it''s easy to sort that given how social medias' interfaces are made so the new constantly buries the old.

Some platforms have much better search features than others though, like Discord. The worst at that is probably Instagram lol

exitseven · Answer

I had a spiral notebook I used in college to chronical my adventures in higher education. It was stored in the attic of my mothers house with the rest of my college stuff.

She hired somebody to clean out the attic and it was all thrown away.

Jessica405 · Answer

As a genealogist, I have not only constructed a huge family tree, but also added photos, maps, press cuttings and written notes to try and put some flesh on the bare bones of the tree.

Lliam · Answer

Mostly photos, but I also write detailed anecdotes about life events - childhood, travels, adventures, people, remarkable experiences, etc. I'm not into journaling.

OneViewpoint · Answer

I try to live in the moment and move toward the future. I don't carry around physical artifacts from my past, only the experiences and memories I carry in my mind.

VioletHaze · Answer

I want to be that person but I've only been able to keep up with it for a week at most. I'm just not the scrapbooking type. Might take it more seriously if I have kids.

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

Videos, photos, you call it! I was able to create a sequenced timeline where i can use it like a time machine 😁

HawkPerception · Answer

I do write... occasionally. I usually only do it when I get bursts of inspiration and it's in those moments that I write journal entries. And I add photos on the rare occasions that I have photos to upload to my entries.

_Jenny_ · Answer

@7phoenix7 some people have their whole life in video

emeraldsaphire · Answer

I scrapbook! So I have pictures and text in there. I keep a diary, and I also keep a video diary. I've got CDs going back to 2007 XD

AydenHazor · Answer

I occasionally use all three but mostly live in the moment and forget to document it until it's past

Nikki1989 · Answer

I write daily, but very little of it is about me or my life.

BCRanger10 · Answer

I don't really do it all that often. I need to start journaling.

usernameobvious · Answer

A mix of all three ideally Most of my life has been my selfies, my memories, etc

Anonymous · Answer

That's literally why i have social media as an online journal

Phoenix98 · Answer

Sure sometimes.

MikeTheBartender · Answer

Definitely mix of all 3

FrodoSkywalker007 · Answer

I used to journal.

Massageman · Answer

Currently doing one for the fam.

AngryCarl3 · Answer

I keep some written notes, just in case.

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