Everyone loves taking group photos with friends and family, but what happens when those people are no longer in your life? Do you keep the photo? Do you take it down from the wall? Do you burn it? Scratch or cut the faces out? Do you put it away in a box in your closet? What do you do?
This question of what to do about this situation has been weighing on my mind. I have pictures on my walls of friends who at one point were my only family, and now they are nowhere in my life anymore. I see them, all of our faces look so happy and like it was the best day ever, but now when I see them all I can think about is the fact that they are not in my life anymore. I can't take any more pictures like that with them because I wouldn't even know how to get ahold of them. I wish it was easy to explain, but it's a lot deeper than just a picture on the wall. If I take them down, then I have no pictures of myself or any recollection of the family that I once created for myself. My walls would be empty, and I would be too scared to add any more to it because they might do the same. However, if I keep them up, it is going to keep eating me up until I fall back down into another depression spiral. So, the question returns: What do you do?
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