I just finished my 100th roll of film and the number made me stop and think

I was cleaning out a drawer last weekend and found all my old film canisters. I started counting them out of curiosity, and when I hit 100, it really got to me. That's 100 times I've loaded a camera, 100 times I've waited for scans, and 100 times I've held a physical picture. Most of those rolls are just normal life stuff, my kid learning to ride a bike, my friend's old dog, the way the light hits my kitchen table in October. I never set out to hit a number, it just happened. But seeing them all together, it hit me that this slow process built a real, solid record of my last ten years in a way my phone photos never could. Has anyone else had a moment like that, where a simple count of something you've done showed you its real value?

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derekp701mo agoMost Upvoted

My 100th roll was mostly blurry cat photos.

evan_morgan811mo ago

My dad kept every single one of his old checkbooks in a shoebox. I found it after he passed and just sat on the floor counting them, like forty years of phone bills and gas money. It was the most boring history lesson ever but it felt huge.