Relive those MOMENTS

Kishore C.S. (November 2000)

Are you bored? Do feel low on morale? Are you stressed? Don’t know what you want to do for couple of hours? Then try this….

Take all the photo albums in your house. Start going through each photograph and Relive those MOMENTS.

Look at a photo
Recollect the occasion
Recollect the people who were there with you
Recollect the environment in which the photo was taken
Recollect your own emotions, feelings at that moment
Transport yourself mentally to the same situation
Enjoy the moment

If possible, do this with someone who can spend sometime with you (may be your spouse or friend). Narrate what you recollect.

This is exactly the thing I did sometime a few days ago. I went through all photos for more than an hour.

- I saw photos from my childhood. Though I cannot recollect the exact moments at such a young age, the fact that I have been in a situation makes me feel so different. I had class photos when I was in LKG and the next class photo I had in my collection is only from my 8^th Standard. Somehow I never got the class photos for intermediate years. I can hardly recognize myself in my LKG photo. I have all the photos from 8^th Standard onwards and when I look at my friends they look so different.

- My photos with family during childhood consists of the visits to grand parents place where we used to play a lot and enjoy summer. We also visited our relatives during summer and all the photos during those occasions also bring back those MOMENTS.

I saw the photos I had with my school friends. I don’t even know where some of them are now. But recollection of those moments certainly lifted my spirits.

I saw the photos with my bachelors and masters degree and recollected fun of those days and shared the same with my wife. I compared old photos with new photos and there is so much difference. THEN and NOW is a good way of comparing what change has come out in all the years.

Then I moved on to my Engagement and Marriage photos. Photos on these occasions are too many so went through those photos a little faster.

Then opened the album that contained my daughter’s growing years. So many photos taken during past few years brings back the kind of pride I had on all those occasion when I asked my daughter to pose for a photo. Even my daughter loves going through all her photos and glees with joy.

Of course, I also browsed through the photos which I took on my foreign trips and again narrate about the places to my wife.

After the time I have spent doing this, I felt very relaxed. I sure recommend this a good relaxation technique. Of course, you can’t do this very frequently. Maybe, once in 6 months is a good idea. 

Caution: Don’t do this when you are in a hurry. Don't try to complete this in one hour.

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