not sure what I was looking for. It started with some random notification, but then I fell down this rabbit hole vacation shots, blurry concert selfies, a thousand moments I barely remembered until I saw them again.Funny how a picture can freeze a second, but it can’t tell you everything else around it. There’s this one photo of me and a few friends crammed into a booth at some diner. We’re all laughing, someone’s mid-sentence, and I look so genuinely happy. But I remember that night. I was anxious, the whole time worried about some stupid argument I had earlier, feeling disconnected even though I was right there with them.
It’s weird, isn’t it? How you can look so happy in a moment you barely felt.
I keep thinking about how many other memories are like that - snapshots that look perfect but don’t tell the full story. I wonder if it’s always been like this, or if I just started noticing.
Anyway, it’s late now. I should probably try to sleep, but I keep catching myself staring at that picture, trying to remember if that version of me felt real.
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