the photograph you forgot

One day, you'll be going through old photos looking for something completely unrelated, and you'll stumble across a picture you don't even remember someone taking.

You will stare at your earlier self mid-laugh, surrounded by people whose faces take a second to name, and realize how many ordinary moments simply dissolved when they ended.

You will make a quiet promise—not to document everything, but to look up more often. You are already inside a photograph someone has not taken yet, living a moment you may one day give anything to remember clearly.