Some powerful memories lay waiting –  emotionally powerful  as the day they first took shape in our minds

I was working on  a new project and my mind immediately thought of a photo I’d captured on my phone while casually walking one morning.   Realizing that the photo would be perfect, I decided I’d use it. But, I had not realized how long ago I’d taken that photo.  So, I began  rummaging through my phone’s photos. And then,  I  began to think I’d deleted the photo.  I surprisingly found the exercise productive – deleting unnecessary stuff. Amazingly, because as phones  do,  phones chronicle years of experiences ( phones have their own nostalgia ), and so eventually, after clicking through several years, I found it. It was as beautiful as I had remembered, a simple photo  of nature. This picture, however, had captured my attention, my heart, and like some faces that you never forget, those entangled emotions. This photo I couldn’t forget — or the way it made me feel. 

At the moment I found it  – it surprised me , this one photo – locked in my memory – that I’d taken several years ago, it had left such an imprint on my mind. That emotion which the photo  stirred up was just as fresh and powerful, if not more, than  the day I snapped the picture. 

As a therapist who loves to use metaphors, I’d just shared one earlier that same day, and now it had come full circle. It was surreal; I was now experiencing the very idea I had been trying to convey to someone else. “If you love something,  let it go, if it comes back It’s yours but, if it doesn’t,  it was never meant to be yours.  The picture laid dormant for three years, but when it was time, when the purpose had come to fruition, the universe provided it for me. If I had not laid eyes on it earlier, I’d not have known ( when the time came)  that it existed. 

I loved the way the  photo drew me in, the power it had to make me focus on my emotions,  my connection to nature.  That snapshot –  a  glance my eyes captured may be something most people may have never noticed.  For me—it was perfect.  

Some things  make such an impact that time or space will never change your connection, appreciation or love for it. In seeing  that photo years later, I still knew why I found it so beautiful, so impactful. 

Yes-there are people who go off for long periods but , separation will not change the way you feel about them. You loved them then, and  you love them now, you’ll love them forever. 

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