I think it's not a bad thing to think circular in general (although your previous post was kind of overcomplicated for me🤭). If it was thought that way, the very people who make other people's lives hell wouldn't be doing it at all. They would feel this constant cycle of action and consequence that the playground, as I call the planet, provides for its players.
Having photos from the past creates a kind of warmth and coziness, at least that's how I feel. They are something tangible that can be touched, just like the other artifacts of the past you wrote about recently. Whereas in modern times our past, fully digitized has a tendency to evaporate with every snap of the universe's fingers (every glitch that can happen with technology)…
I remember the two suitcases with pictures of my grandfather that were under his bed. They were extremely interesting to me and my brother as children. Then it was our turn. We were also excited to take pictures with the old Russian black and white film camera we had at home.
"The black and white era of the 60s", you say 🤔
I know very well the first photo of me, which is in color. It was printed on Kodak paper, with very bright colors. A family friend had taken these pictures with his camera. But he had access to other countries because he worked on a ship. That was in the 80s. And by the time we ourselves started taking photos with color tape, it took probably other 15 years.
But that's because, as I said, we're unlucky with conquerors. 😂