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Bruthas Time is something I've always said was precious, but I've also mentioned that it's my worse enemy. The more of it we use, the more important it is for us to remember the time already spent. And appreciating time is something people rarely do. Now that I work at Wolf Camera in Four Seasons Town Centre, I help people everyday preserve their memories on film. First-time mothers bring in film just as fast as they go buy diapers. Newly-weds drop off pounds of film of their weddings and honeymoons. College students fill the store with pictures of their collegiate experiences and friends. All these pictures one day will be much more treasured than what they are now. And some, buried at the bottom of those shoe boxes and back pages of photo albums, will be forgotten until one day they are unearthed and rediscovered.
Wolf Camera has taught me so when I look at this picture, I'm thinking fill flash, slower film speed for graininess and a wider aperature setting for more light since neither of us is moving requiring a fast shutter speed. But time has taught me so when I take another look at this picture, I'm thinking how little time we had as children to be children before it was that time to grow up, be young men, mature even when we still wanted to play with our G.I. Joes and accept responsibility for ourselves. My brother, Charlson Maurice Gaines, is now in San Angelo, Texas, in the Air Force. He teaches Kuk Sool, a Korean martial art, in which he is a black belt. But when you look at the little child to the right, all you see is an innocent little kid. Somewhere between the time this photo was taken and today, I lost track of when we developed from these two kids into the two young men we are now. Time doesn't give us enough to properly record all our memories. Time doesn't even allow us the time to go back and change things in our past to improve our future. All time does is race ahead giving us just enough to witness life and get the most out of it as we can before we're next on the list.
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