With time on my hands I have
been digitising old slides, not slides of places but slides of people. We all know
that it is not remarkable when looking back how images create feelings and transport
us back to another time. Every
picture tells a story don’t it or
says Rod Stewart
It is nice to remember the
story around each picture as your mind fills in the details of a story only you
may remember. When we look at old photos, it's obvious isn't it? We think we were
good-looking back then. Really good-looking. Yet somehow, at the time, you
didn't quite believe it. We were to busy doing life, living our story, bringing
in people to fill in the plot lines that we wanted to create and live. Life was
exciting and full of opportunity. Our children look at our old photo’s and sometime
they will ask questions, other times the significance of the picture will be
clear to them but sometimes they dismiss the picture, and with it the story and
the feelings we had at the time. They are not being cruel or selfish, they are
too busy living their own life and creating their own stories.
We learn from yesterday,
because today we are even better looking than we were then. Way better. We are
smarter, too. Funnier. Wiser. More compassionate. Less serious. And we are
totally sauntering!
We know we learn and grow,
and we know that our children, our young will learn and grow and become better
than they are today. Our thoughts, our wisdom, our understanding of life has or
will be passed down to the next generation and one day they will be looking at
old photos’ or videos or what ever technology has invented to help us preserve
our stories. They will look back and think, every picture tells a story and they
will be eager to share that story with the next generation.
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