The Shame of Those Awkward Photos
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Ryan explains why the memories that matter are not staged.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your most important job being a dad. |
| 0:15.2 | These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:22.9 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.1 | The shame of those awkward photos. |
| 0:34.9 | Ever look at an old family photo from when you were growing up at a friend's house, |
| 0:39.7 | from one of your own albums, the ridiculous 80s hair, the 90s style, the ridiculous matching |
| 0:45.4 | outfits, the weird poses? They make you cringe a little bit, no? But the truth of what's |
| 0:52.5 | really embarrassing about these photos is nothing to do with the fashion. |
| 0:56.2 | Surely people in the 1890s look discants that the photos taken in the 1870s and how people looked. |
| 1:02.7 | No, what's embarrassing about the photos is actually slightly less visible, discernible not in the |
| 1:07.9 | clothes, but in the body language and the facial expressions. |
| 1:16.2 | It's that for basically no reason, this family, your family, perhaps, got in a huge, |
| 1:21.1 | stressful fight and made everyone miserable. The arguments over the clothes, the expense, |
| 1:25.5 | back when these things were expensive, the drive over to the park, the yelling at everyone to smile, chasing down the toddler who kept running away, arguing over which photos to pick, how many of each print to buy. |
| 1:32.2 | All of this, why? To have a photo you look at twice a year? The photo is not the problem, of course. The photos are a symbol, a symbol of all the things we do because we think we're supposed to. All the things we do so we can remember it. |
| 1:46.0 | The things we make harder than they need to be, all the special things that are really just |
| 1:50.2 | artificial and in the end mean nothing. The memories that matter are not staged. There is hardly |
| 1:57.7 | any work in them at all. The sign of a happy family is not that they all wore matching denim and stood next to some flowers. |
| 2:04.9 | The photos that will remind you of the great times do not require elaborate posing. |
| 2:09.5 | They just happen. |
| 2:10.7 | They are natural. |
| 2:11.9 | No teeth must be pulled, no arguments required. |
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