Life is an adventure, let's make it cinematic!
I remember when I was in my early teens, finding an old 8mm film projector in my Aunt's basement with a couple of reels of film labled "The Farm" and "The Kids". Being the A/V nerd I was back then I asked if I could set it up and take a look.
It was, as you might expect, old moving pictures of a tour around the old family farm. The kids turned out to be my aunts and uncles, "long before I was a twinkle in my mothers eye", as they say.
It was also much more than that. Even without sound, and with the unsteady camera work, it gave me a glimps of who these people were. People I'd only known as the adults in my life. A snapshot of the past that allowed the context and the character of those people, and that place, to time travel into my present. Crashing straight into the hearts and minds of myself and the few family members present for the experience.
It made me realize that every life is a tangle of stories cascading down through time and that those stories can mean everything to the right people. I get the same sort of feeling when I happen to look at one of the many old photographs or videos of my own kids, captured on my phone. I imagine the stories they might live, and who they may have a profound impact upon in the future.
Some things we only get once in life. Aren't they worth capturing the best we can? Little time capsules of joy and perspective for others to find and where, maybe, we find ourselves.