This is why your snapshots are supremely important...

Okay, let's get this premise out of the way right now.

Setting aside all religious, self-actualized, psychological, metaphysical and paranormal inferences that might interfere with the statement for a moment: you are a singular entity who presently exists within a finite period of history on Planet Earth. That fact makes you an amazing and unique historical figure.  Inexplicably, it also lumps all of us into the same category while simultaneously revealing that each of us is a singular one-of-a-kind character on the stage of this globe.  A paradox to say the least.  We're all alike and we're all different - all at the same time.

Nobody has ever witnessed the Earth, has ever inhabited this planet or has ever existed before who is remotely like you.  That's not to say that most of us don't share similar circumstances with, not only our fellow inhabitants today, but also those who lived hundreds or even thousands of years ago.  But nobody else has ever "awakened" on the Earth who was the product of your mother and father on the same piece of dirt at the same moment in time.  Only you.  And only you can read your story because only you know the meaning of the signs and symbols of your personal language. Yes, your language.  The one you speak to yourself within every moment of every day.

If you're not sure what that language is or how it's constructed, it's only because you have accepted the idea (as almost all of us do) that you only communicate in the language of your country, state or region.  Of course you speak and read the language of your region and communicate with other people in the symbols that have been mutually agreed upon as speech.  But I'm referring to the code within your own sphere of existence. The one where a particular smell from your childhood opens up a virtual library of meaning for you.  The one where a shape or a pattern sweeps your mind (and your heart) down a path populated with rich and powerful symbols that only you can assemble into a distinctive expression.

One of the easiest and most accessible ways to begin exploring your personal, internal language is by dragging the shoebox of ancient photographs out from under the bed.  Or pulling the baggie full of old, out of focus, faded snapshots from the back of the closet. Or retrieving the old video tapes (super 8, 16mm films) from out of the attic.  Then just start looking at them.  You will begin to discover that you have been serving as your own documentarian.  Your parents and your friends and even local newspapers and your schools or businesses have been adding to your biographical material. Why? Because your life is important to document.

A critical piece of advice to consider at this starting point is: don't try to "understand" what you're seeing in your images. Simply look at them and allow what you see to astonish you.  Because it will.  It's been waiting there for a long time to do just that.