There's a post over on Babble about whether or not parents are comfortable posting pics of their kids on the internet. I am kind of in the middle. It seems like with so many pictures of so many children out there, the evil pervs have millions to choose from and what are the odds they stalk me and mine. Also, I think I read somewhere that a majority of molestations, abductions and such are from people the victims actually know. As far as any virtual shenanigans that might be done with an image, well, after all, it's just an image, it's not the real person. And, besides all that, I have a sense that really bad and awful things won't happen to me. So, of course, I post pics of my kid on Facebook, now and then, and I used to even have a public, yet personal, blog detailing her milestones and growth as a baby. That kind of fizzled out around age two or two-and-a-half, though.
And that got me to thinking, oh no, I am not documenting my child's life anymore the way I used to! What am I missing? Cue mini anxiety attack! And this was while I was doing yoga, a time that I typically think about such pressing things as what I will have for breakfast, what deadlines I need to tackle today, if we'll have time to hit a playground, are my husband and I supposed to have sex tonight, what beer will we have with dinner...
And what about the baby book? Yeah, that kind of fizzled out, too. But that was my husband's domain. I am more of the electronic media virtual girl. It dawned on me I haven't transferred video from the camcorder (do people even use those anymore?) to DVD in a while. It's hard to keep up with all the work-for-pay work, reading, housekeeping and child-engaging I need to do, let alone be the family archivist. Then I got to thinking, the media will probably change over time and we won't even be using DVDs anymore. Uploading to the cloud may very well become the standard. But, what if the cloud blows up? That said, all the paper photos could burn up, be lost, or destroyed in some kind of natural disaster, too, of course. Nothing is forever!
Nothing is forever and so it seems pointless to worry about documenting a life when you should be living it, right? Right. I can live in the moment. I can really look, really pay attention to my child in the here and now. I can create memories and hold them in my heart, and my mind. But, but, but...what if I get dementia or Alzheimers when I am old? No. Remember? Bad things don't happen to me. So instead of sweating it too much, I am just going to do what I always do. Live my life, snap a few pics here and there, post them on Facebook and maybe print out a book once or twice a year. And really try to be in the moment.
Anxiety crisis averted.
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