5 Great Ways to Preserve Your Memories Forever

Imagination is a strange thing. Think of a memory sort of like a ZIP file for your mind. For example, when the word “school” is absorbed in your head, all sorts of memories likely come bubbling to the surface of your brain. You may remember cold mornings, wild laughter, uneasiness, security, confusion, awkwardness, or any variety of feelings.

With each feeling comes a sort of mental picture of an event that transpired. But we never quite remember things precisely as they were; we remember them as we perceived them. When you remember something, your brain is sort of rewriting a past experience through the lens of your present self. As you remember things, your mind distorts them.

A popular way of overcoming this distortion involves collecting keepsakes of one variety or another. Pictures are one of the most well-known, but there are other options as well. Here we’ll briefly explore five ways to preserve the most important moments of your life so they transcend the test of time.

1. Transforming Photos To Paintings

One option may be turning a photograph—digital or otherwise—into the sort of artwork one might find in a king’s palace. Today’s technology makes it possible to cost-effectively acquire oil paintings from photo collections; just choose the picture you want transformed and follow the link to explore your options.

Dogs, family members, scenes from your glory days—all can be made into oil paintings so exquisite they appear inspired by themselves. The transferral process adds an “avant-garde” quality to the end result.

2. Journaling Out Memorable Moments

Pictures may say a thousand words, but they’re not as comprehensive as writing. The picture may only say a thousand words, but an instant in time may require a million words to properly describe.

When something you want to remember happens, it can be wise to journal it out in every relevant detail. This preserves the memory, and you can revisit the passage whenever it suits you to.

3. An Oldie But a Goodie: Home Movies

Home movies have been a staple of memorializing modern times since before there were color cameras. It took until about the eighties for camera technology to become affordable enough for everyday people. Today, everyone’s got a smartphone that provides more definition than the movie studios of yesteryear. So capture what you can!

4. Laser-Engraved Three-Dimensional Pictures

Another memorialization tactic that became recent in the last thirty years or so, is laser engraving—it’s what’s called a “bubblegram”, though it’s seldom if ever sold under that term.

A photo is given to a computer, which carves that photo out of a crystalline cube, rectangle, or other shape in three-dimensions using a laser. This is a bit pricey, but it’s stylish and beautiful. These have been a staple of kiosks in malls over the last thirty years or so.

5. Photo Albums, Collages, and Room Decoration

Another classic way of memorializing the most important of life’s moments involves photography and its presentation. Smartphones have changed the game a bit; no longer do you need a photo developer to transfer film. Now you can take the picture with your device, then print it off on photo paper from a color printer.

Memories can be transferred to a collage, or a photo album carefully designed to match your sensibilities. Another option may be taking one wall of a room and covering it with pictures in a massive collage—kind of like wallpaper. Get creative!

Preserving Those Moments In Life That Deserve Revisiting
Whether you’re decorating rooms, making collages, padding out photo albums, commissioning laser-engraved bubblegrams, or the many other suggestions in this article, it’s a fine idea to commemorate those moments in life you’d like to relive again and again.

Today’s possibilities in terms of memorialization solutions are more diverse than ever; if you haven’t looked into what’s out there, that might be something worth exploring.