Pictures

I think the reason I like pictures is because they represent life idealized. They are what we want our lives to be like or at least what I want my life to be like. With pictures you can save the good and throw out the bad. You can edit, adjust, crop, and fix. A person looking at a picture can only know what is in the picture and everything else is assumed. It’s like looking at a painting. The artist probably labored for hours. He or she may have spilled paint, made a mistake, changed something, or even gotten stuck a few times. He or she may have gotten paint everywhere or taken days to finish, and the painting may have an elaborate story behind it but the casual observer will never know. This is like with a picture. The viewer cannot tell that it was freezing cold or that something funny happened in the background or that the photographer slipped right at the moment the picture was taken. The only thing captured is one single moment in time that can never be physically recreated. The one thing that can be recreated is the emotion. A picture can capture an emotion (or several) and pass it on to other people for years to come. Maybe pictures don’t always capture real life (though sometimes they do), but they do capture real emotions. And maybe it’s better in that case to keep the good and throw away the bad. The bad have there place but for now that place is far away lol.