We asked: As the year draws to a close, what New Year resolutions did you keep and which fell by the wayside in 2021, and what ones will you make for 2022?
Let’s try again to put memories in order
Making a New Year’s resolution is like walking across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
On the one hand, you’re excited about taking that first step towards a laudable goal: the other side of the chasm. You imagine the rewards: Huzzah! Cheers! You made it!
On the other hand, you could slip, lose your footing and plummet into the foaming waters, an animated portrait of defeat.
At least that’s the way I picture my New Year’s resolutions from past years: noble beginnings, groaning disasters.
It’s all because I inevitably make the same resolution every year: Organize my photos.
And I am not alone in writing down this simple goal on the last day of December.
I’ve clipped out enough articles titled “What to Do With Family Photos” and “Finally Organize Those Photos” to know that there are others who tremble at the thought of tackling their photo hoards.
As one of those articles reminds me: “The idea of sorting through them feels daunting, so instead you do nothing. The shots pile up; the cycle continues.”
What if one’s hesitancy to embark on sorting through old family photos is part of a cycle? Aren’t family photos evidence of the cycles of our lives: birth, growth, age, death? Do we avoid sorting through the boxes of photos in order to avoid cycling through the stages of our lives?
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