Can looking at old photographs stip up an anxiety about the progress you have made thus far in your life? I'm thinking perhaps.
The person who has no photographs has fuzzy, slightly blurry memories of the past. Fuzziness lends warmth to
memories. There are no fuzzy and traumatic memories of the fiery car crash that you were in. Traumatic recalls are sharp and painful; almost like you are still there. Rather, time and deacying neural network seperating you from said event produce a warm glow like an old blurry tube TV that takes an hour to warm up.
The person who has photographs has a sharp reminder of the past. The past is always present in the form of a photo. This affects the brain as looking at photos re-work old memory circuits associated with the memory.
As for life progress, the photo is a sharp reminder of wasted potential. Youth shows limitless potential - the vastest sea of possibilities. Humans see possibilities as variably open with youth but closing with age. These potentialities are not always realistic. That is why so many of the fat or short dream of playing in the NBA. But, they are real as potentialities as possibilities only need the real estate of imagination to be real. Possibilities, by there own very nature, cannot be actual.
On the other hand, humans natuarally see possibilities clsoing with age. Psychological comfort is achieved by doing so. Age is ineveitable and squandered oppurtunity is as excusable as the ineveitable passing of time. Of course, we could have achieved that at that time but now were old, so its fine.
So when we see youth in others in person or ourselves in photos we invariably see squanderd possibility. This squandered possibility is not the gradual shelving of our small disappointments of missed chances. But the explosion of in your face squandering that hits you all at once. Sight is out strongest sense, and can still trigger the strongest and primal motional feeling.
The person who has no photographs has fuzzy, slightly blurry memories of the past. Fuzziness lends warmth to
memories. There are no fuzzy and traumatic memories of the fiery car crash that you were in. Traumatic recalls are sharp and painful; almost like you are still there. Rather, time and deacying neural network seperating you from said event produce a warm glow like an old blurry tube TV that takes an hour to warm up.The person who has photographs has a sharp reminder of the past. The past is always present in the form of a photo. This affects the brain as looking at photos re-work old memory circuits associated with the memory.
As for life progress, the photo is a sharp reminder of wasted potential. Youth shows limitless potential - the vastest sea of possibilities. Humans see possibilities as variably open with youth but closing with age. These potentialities are not always realistic. That is why so many of the fat or short dream of playing in the NBA. But, they are real as potentialities as possibilities only need the real estate of imagination to be real. Possibilities, by there own very nature, cannot be actual.
On the other hand, humans natuarally see possibilities clsoing with age. Psychological comfort is achieved by doing so. Age is ineveitable and squandered oppurtunity is as excusable as the ineveitable passing of time. Of course, we could have achieved that at that time but now were old, so its fine.
So when we see youth in others in person or ourselves in photos we invariably see squanderd possibility. This squandered possibility is not the gradual shelving of our small disappointments of missed chances. But the explosion of in your face squandering that hits you all at once. Sight is out strongest sense, and can still trigger the strongest and primal motional feeling.
Possible equation:
Photo X ( degree of look of promise in subject`s eye in Photo X + Age of youself in Photo X (where 18 is optimal age of promise minus 1 for each year over/under) Multiplied By X perceived success at life Minus - actual success = degrees of Anxiety
Photo X ( degree of look of promise in subject`s eye in Photo X + Age of youself in Photo X (where 18 is optimal age of promise minus 1 for each year over/under) Multiplied By X perceived success at life Minus - actual success = degrees of Anxiety
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