This evening Samantha brought out an old home video that her brother had taken at the Millennium party 18 years ago where a lot of the people who are here this year were present at the time. This was new to most of us and of course despite the poor quality of the film its quite fun to see people as they were in on 31st of December 1999. However, I have no regrets that I do not have more movies from my past. I was against taking a video of my wedding to Fianna and this confirms my decision. No video could come close to recreating the feelings and impressions I had during those two days, so why would I want to replace my memories with someone else's vision. Memory has a life of its own and chooses to highlight or obscure different things. Seeing a video of a memorable occasion is like seeing the film of a book you enjoyed. It doesn't matter how good the movie is, its never going to be as good as the "film" you imagined when you read the book.
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