I don’t usually store images on my cellphone, because I have a nice digital camera that has a much higher resolution than my tiny little cell phone camera. Most of the few pictures on there are of random striped or plaid patterns that I thought would make cool backgrounds. There is only one picture on there that has any significance, and, luckily, there is a story behind it.
It is a picture of a purple Post-it note, with writing on it in Sharpie. This might not sound exciting to most people, but it does bring back a memory to me.
My girlfriend had come over to my dorm room to work on some of her homework for a while before we went out to dinner. She was writing a paper and had her book marked in multiple places with purple Post-its. Sitting down next to her, I plucked a few stray Post-its that had fallen out of her book from amongst my half-heartedly made bed, and said, “Here, you dropped these. I don’t want to find Post-its in my sheets.”
“Not even if there’s little notes written on them?” she asked.
I rolled my eyes at her silliness, but a minute later, she asked me whether I had a Sharpie on my desk, just as I was walking out of my room to go to the bathroom so that we could subsequently leave and get dinner. I figured this meant she was writing me that note she promised, but, by the time I got back from the bathroom, she had her coat on and I had completely forgotten about it.
I came back from dinner later that night, got changed into my pajamas, and pulled back my sheets, only to have my hand rub up against a small random object on my bed. I turned the light back on and found a balled-up purple Post-it in my sheets. Opening it out, I saw that it had the word “love” scrawled across it in Sharpie. It made me laugh at my own horrible short-term memory, as well as my girlfriend’s silliness, so I put the Post-it up on the bulletin board by my desk.
That Post-it is still up there, looking me in the face every time I sit down to do my homework. It’s a reminder of the way that all the little things in life can put a smile on your face.
But you didn’t post the image? Nothing like a post-it note on the Intrawebs.
Originally I couldn’t figure out how to add photos, but now it’s there. I break technology a lot. It took me like a month to figure out how the text prediction on my cellphone worked so I could actually text readable things to people.
I love it.
And now I wonder: having the image up there, does it change the way you approach this bit of writing? That is, if it had been up there all along, would you have written it up differently? Unanswerable question, suspect — but still, I wonder.