Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Documenting a Life

Wow. A man takes a Polaroid picture every day for 18 years until the day he dies. (h/t dakwallah)

Looking through these and seeing his days of humor, of joy, of grief and of humdrum.... It seems like whenever I get too focused on the negatives in my life, something always turns up to help refocus me.

We all have our griefs, greater and lesser. The trick it seems is to keep living your life and finding - or making - the days of joy anyway. That I think is the ultimate goal behind the No Complaints attempt. Not that we should never ever complain, but that we - I - can let the complaints overwhelm everything else and then lose sight of all the reasons to celebrate.

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