Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Changing Snapshots

Remembering the times where a person got frustrated for not able to get his friend deleting one particular picture of him laughing out loud, which in his opinion is not appropriate though the friends around have been seeing it ever since they know him. That friend of his means no harm and never thought of taking any actions such as posting the pictures online, simply, he doesn’t delete photos which have been taken. Perhaps this is one of our many habits that we choose to keep only the nice pictures of ours instead of the random ones, so that we wouldn’t get embarrassed in the future whenever people see it. Looking through the photographs taken in class, indeed there are those which are less likely to interest many; however, somehow they inspire us to think, wondering what happened back then or perhaps, reminding us part of the missing pieces we’ve forgotten. Candid photos of us enjoying the food illegally, falling asleep during one of the lessons, fooling around with the rats before we are to dissect them and so on; moments where we’ve put ourselves aside, our friends aside, our memories aside. With the latest technology, we no longer need to sigh over an inappropriate photo taken, for we can change the fact by pressing a button. Still, how many choose not to change it, but to live with it? It is to say that the past haunts us when we live in it, suppose it would be a total different then, if we are to live with it, setting it as an example, a reminder to our future.