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Out of curiosity, which comments did you interpret as negative? At the moment, I don’t see any that are distinctly negative, so I’m curious about how our percep

• rayiner 12y ago
  As of the moment of writing this reply, the highest-ranked top-level comments below mine are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789558; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789558; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789437; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789437; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789400. I don't feel like my taking a lot of photos keeps her from being an independent person, nor do I think it unduly intrudes on her privacy, nor do I think I'm missing out by taking photos instead of just enjoying the experience. I'll be proud to see my daughter become her own person and find people she cares about more than me. She'll grow up and move on. But I can't. Part of me gets stuck in each instant in time where I look at her and know she's the most important thing in the world. So the way I see it, if I'm going to be hung up on these moments forever, I'm entitled to have pictures of them.