It was almost after two years that my sister and I sat down to go back our childhood memory lane. We took out almost seven thick photo albums to look at and thoroughly enjoyed our journey going back in time. But at one moment my sister Sandra abruptly commented, picking up one heavy album, “It’s wiser to have digital photographs saved on the computer instead of having such heavy albums.”
I decided to talk it out with her and help her think about what she said. Her claim is that it’s more practical and wise to keep photographs stored in hard disks on the computer, and her support is that such digital albums don’t occupy space in the house and are also easy to handle. So I said to her that her warrant would be like this, “People who have photo book albums are less wise than those who have digital photo albums.” Sandra said that is absolutely right and it’s so dumb to have heavy photo albums lying around in the house in such a technologically advanced age.
But the problem here is that it categorizes everyone who has photo book albums, as less wise than those who prefer to have digital photos on the computer. I explained to Sandra that in our parent’s younger days they neither had computers nor easy access to it later in life due to monetary limitations. For middle class and poor people it’s not easy to be technologically as advanced as their upper class counterparts. Moreover photo albums are every family’s treasure of beautiful memories and one can look at them anytime. Sandra was humbled and understood that her remark could hurt others and was able to value the albums we continued to look at for the rest of the evening.
