Merriam-Webster defines; “out of sight, out of mind” – a person stops thinking about something or someone if they don’t see that thing or person for a period of time. The images in our phones or on our computers are locked away out of site and out of mind. According to a google search the average amount of images a person has stored on there phone is about 630. I know in my phone alone I have over 1,500 photos and couldn’t tell you what half of them are of. However think about the printed photos you have, in your house on the wall, in your wallet, on your desk. Those images are not locked for our minds daily to see and remember the events, the people, or the way we were feeling and thinking the day the image was taken. We see them walking to the kitchen for a bite to eat or sitting at our desk for the next 8 hours, or when we go to pay for our groceries.

I can remember the printed photos in my world a great deal better because they are not out of sight so they stay in my mind. However I am not advocating digital photos are bad I just point out of the thousands of images we have picking a few that are our favorite and printing them will bring them into your everyday sight. If you took the time to take the picture why not actually see it verses forget about it.

http://“out of sight, out of mind,” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/out%20of%20sight%2C%20out%20of%20mind. Accessed 7/6/2021.