a mirror for memories

[devilindupriest]

So this still exists. I wonder what, if any, difference it will make for people. Living in a world where who we were remains on display if we ever think to look back at it. Not just the moments we might've written about in a diary filtered through our later perception as we read them, or the terribly earnest emotions of old love letters in all their stinging glory, or the faded remembrance of an old photo trying to see the person we are now in the face that was us then. All the banality, all the social preening, the exclamation points of youthful idealism, the fads and fashions of prior politics. Plenty of people have lamented the foolishness of their youth with an uncomfortable chuckle, or a weary shrug at the way of the world. That's hardly a new story. I wonder if it will make any difference that instead of vague and uncomfortable memories of a version of you that never existed, instead we'll be able to look back directly at the world we used to see, rail against, or willfully ignore.

Quite possibly it's just me. Or if that borders on narcissism, at the very least it is not an issue of the human condition but of individuals.