A Hoarder's Tale

I’ve been a photographer for thirty years and still have most of the negatives and slides that I’ve shot over the years. They are not well organized. They are in boxes, trays and envelopes. I’m not proud of this fact. Recently I’ve started to clean up a little bit and while doing so I ran across a set of negatives from a wedding that I shot almost twenty years ago. I wondered if this couple was still together and after a few internet searches I found out that they were still married. I thought about throwing them away, but then I thought about taking them to the couple that was only a few month away from their 20th anniversary. When I got to their house it looked like a scene from that show Hoarders and I couldn’t help but think that I had become part of some Hoarder's Circle of Life. These negatives have been in a pile in my home office space for almost twenty years and now they are going to spend the next twenty in this couple’s pile. I should have done use both a favor and thrown them away.