Pictures

The flash sparks and thus the image is born, imprinted into the digital world forever. The pictures never lie, altered or not they never lie. Life is captured here, forever held in the digital world, never to be lost or forgotten. That is why people don't take pictures of funerals or divorce, they take pictures to remember the good times, the funny moments, the moments that made life worth living. Those moments are what one aspires to capture on camera. It is never the ugly, or evil in someone, but the good, the light. So why do we throw away these pictures as soon as we're done with the people? Is the memory to painful to cherish, or is the guilt to heavy to bare? Why is it that a picture can have so much power over a person's conscious? It starts when you open your own eyes and look into yourself, and then your reflection captured in a picture. You certainly never see the horror, or pain you've caused, nor the lies you told to ease your pride. No, you only see the good that you believe you have in yourself. Until you accept yourself for who you really are, for everything that you've done, only then do you have the right to delete the pictures of those who've hurt you. Otherwise, it is like you are deleting yourself. The problem with that it is you never know which part of you is being deleted, the evil or the good.