I'm a photo hoarder. The Camera Roll on my phone has been upwards of almost 4,000 pictures at a time. While I've gotten better at clearing it out, I still find it sad to delete photos. It feels like my memories are being deleted with them!
Technology has given us a way of remembering things that we would probably have forgotten long ago. It's fun to relive moments that had slipped your mind, although sometimes I wonder what things my brain would have deemed important enough to remember without visual reminders like photos.
However, even pictures can cease to bring back memories. If I look at a picture from last year, chances are good that I can recall other details about what was going on at the time, possibly even thoughts I was thinking in the picture. But if I post a throw back photo of baby-me, you can bet I have zero recollection of the time the picture was taken.
Personally, I find that reminiscing has an irresistible quality. Of course, some things we would rather forget, but there's satisfaction in seeing how far you've come, and how things have changed in ways that the you in the picture could never have foreseen. It's like two realities merging.
As shutter-happy as I was last year, sometimes I find myself wishing I had taken more photos of day to day things, the things that I wouldn't necessarily remember on my own.
In 2017, I've found a solution.
New Years Enthusiast that I am, January 1st found me scrolling through my youtube subscriptions watching 2016 wrap ups and 2017 plans. One youtuber that I've been subscribed too for years, Morgan Yates, posted a video called "A Second A Day for a Year."
The video was exactly what it sounded like: a one second video taken every single day of 2016. I watched the whole 6 minutes of it, and knew that I had to make one of my own.
She didn't specify how she made the video, but I found an app called 1 Second Everyday and got started.
Let me tell you, it has been so much fun! It's not only cool to get to see (so far) the past two weeks of my life go by in 14 seconds, it's had other positive impacts on my life too.
For one, it makes me want to get out of the house and do things or meet up with people so that I can record them for my one second of the day! I don't want to get to the end of the year and have my video be six minutes of sitting on the couch watching TV.
Creatively, it's a cool outlet to pic what you're going to record that day, and to see all of the seconds mashed together in the video. The app has been so much fun to use and I'm so excited to watch a montage of my 2017 at the end of the year.
Give it a try and see for yourself! :)
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