The Only Ways to Remember...

I was looking through pictures from the past to put onto the online craze called myspace. I realized that once you are old, the only real way to remember your past is by looking at pictures. I was never a picture fanatic, so I rarely took pictures of things I did or places I went. Only recently I have realized the importance of pictures, and therefore took quite a lot of pictures of not only myself but of scenery in Vietnam. Souvenirs from places that you travel to can sometimes be for sentimental reasons, but I find all of the souvenirs I have accumulated over the years to be in some drawer by my desk. They had a big impact on me when I initially bought them, but as the years went by they became less and less important to me. Pictures seem to be the best way to remember things, and by looking upon old pictures I was in, some of them I can actually remember what I did that day. Its amazing what your brain stores from the past, and how quickly I was able to remember the events by just looking at a few pictures. Another way to remember past experiences is to keep talking about them, and telling stories to others. This way is effective, but once you stop telling the stories, then the events will start to fade from your memory. I am really bad at telling stories so I think I'll stick to taking pictures of experiences from now on.