Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to look through your old vacation photos.
Speaker 1: You may not be traveling to as many places now
Speaker 1: as you have in recent years, but spending ten minutes
Speaker 1: looking through photos of lovely scenery or maybe your happy
Speaker 1: family in those lovely scenes can be a great pick
Speaker 1: me up. It definitely beats doom scrolling. Like most of us,
Speaker 1: I spend way more time on my phone than I
Speaker 1: probably should. It's the simplest thing to use when I'm
Speaker 1: feeding the baby, or board and waiting somewhere. I try
Speaker 1: to choose good things to do with it, like texting
Speaker 1: friends or reading on my kindle app but sometimes I
Speaker 1: do other things. Probably most of us do. But when
Speaker 1: you don't feel like we or connecting, there is one
Speaker 1: more option beyond reading the political musings on Facebook from
Speaker 1: your second cousin or that guy you never did like
Speaker 1: in high school. Many of us use our phones as
Speaker 1: our cameras. That means we have lots of old photos
Speaker 1: saved on their phones. These can be a timeline of
Speaker 1: our lives, including some real highlights. You can look through
Speaker 1: photos of vacations and for a few minutes mentally transport
Speaker 1: yourself elsewhere. I have been doing this lately as time
Speaker 1: without much travel stacks up. We canceled our trip over Christmas,
Speaker 1: and we haven't booked anything for spring since there's so
Speaker 1: much uncertainty, and so there are no trips on my
Speaker 1: calendar right now that I am looking forward to. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll do something last minute if things open up, but
Speaker 1: for now I'm relying more un mental time travel. I
Speaker 1: looked back through two thousand nineteen photos, particularly to a
Speaker 1: lovely island trip in the spring that the kids keep
Speaker 1: talking about. Yosemite in the summer with those posing rock
Speaker 1: faces was certainly a memorable time. I even like looking
Speaker 1: at gorgeous fall photos I took on a walk when
Speaker 1: I went to Seattle for work before people stopped traveling
Speaker 1: for work. It's not the same as a vacation, of course,
Speaker 1: but it's not bad either. Indeed, my older kids and
Speaker 1: I once spent a few hours when we had no
Speaker 1: internet access looking through old photos on my phone. We
Speaker 1: looked at when they were younger. We rehashed memories. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: remember when we did that? That was so much fun.
Speaker 1: We should do that again. This can be a fun
Speaker 1: family activity when again, there are fewer fun family activities
Speaker 1: available than we might want. In any case, if we
Speaker 1: take these photos, and there's no doubt that many of
Speaker 1: us take a lot, we may as well enjoy them.
Speaker 1: They don't do much just sitting there looking at them. Again,
Speaker 1: lets us experience some of the pleasure we had in
Speaker 1: the moment. When we share the memory with others, we
Speaker 1: increase the pleasure and we all feel closer. That is
Speaker 1: a lot of upside for something you can do on
Speaker 1: your phone. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
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