I bought a time machine. It is a wonderful device by which I am digitizing 45 years of slides. Before me on my computer screen are these two very thin dark haired people with two little boys. Who are they? They are very good looking and appear to be very happy. Oh! I know who they are. It’s us – my wife and boys. Wow. We looked good. So what happened?
Even though the slides have lost much of their original color and are often covered with dust spots there is the wonder of Photoshop. A few clicks of the auto color button and the pictures look like I took them yesterday. A few clicks of the replace button and the dust specks disappear. Oh, this is grand. I wanted to say this was as easy as getting the spots off my record in heaven. But this is much easier. This photo process cost a few dollars while the spots on my record required the cross of Jesus. That was the most expensive price ever paid for anything.
Hopefully, though we might not look as good on the outside as we did decades ago, we are much better looking on the inside. Hopefully our characters have been steadily improving and behavior-wise we are much nicer, much kinder, much more generous people than we were. Sometimes we shudder when we think of some of the things we did and said to others. Hopefully, should we be in similar situations we would react in a much more loving way. This growth is what life is all about. To be more today than we were yesterday and yet more tomorrow. Here’s looking forward to the day when we will never again need to be Photoshopped.
Written by Roger Bothwell on October 20, 2011
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