Old Photographs ..

[Eleena]

Do you ever look at old photographs ( like I did tonight) .. and think what a life journey you've been on .. and who'd have thought! I looked so naive. So many experiences to go through, bittersweet. Just a thought.

[Caran]

I was looking at old photos a. Couple of weeks ago. I couldn't believe the different shapes my body was in. To strictly skinny to overweight.
So I did something about it, I have lost a stone so far.
Found it so easy so will carry on.

[jno]

yes. Was that really me wrangling with a 6-foot-long python? I'd forgotten till I saw the photo.

[Mamyalynne]

Not as often as I used to, but I know just what you mean Eleena.

[Buenchico]

I just find myself thinking "Was that really me? or "Was I really there?".

For example, I look at photos of a long-haired guy, dressed in an academic gown, and realise that I've got no real memory of my graduation ceremony (and only very limited memories of the four years it took me to reach it). Similarly I can look at a photo of someone who looks vaguely like me, with a koala clinging to my chest, and ask myself if I really visited Australia over thirty years ago.

[kvalidir]

I love old photographs but always think they just underline how fleeting everything is, I sometimes find them quite sad x

[jno]

mine are like Caran's, I used to be about half what I weigh now.

[Eleena]

Evening jno, mamya.
Not just the things we've done, but what you go through good and bad, all the stuff that makes you grow in experience as a person. Things you would never contemplate at such a young age. I guess we look back over stuff as we get older.

[Eleena]

Buen, isn't it weird!

[Old_Geezer]

Seen lots of old photographs on YouTube.

May not have been the same person in the photo. 'We' exist at all moments of our life, but who's to say the person who went to bed last night is the same one who woke this morning apparently with a set of the other's memories ?

[Eleena]

kval, yes absolutely. I think it's the naivety of youth thats captured in the lens, and as you say how fleeting those moments are.

[jno]

I haven't really got any photos of significant experiences (except my wedding), mainly because in the old days you had to get someone else to take them for you. You can see my face getting more lined and saggy (not till I was 50 or so) and my shape becoming more balloon-like, but that's about all. Apart from that, just little black and white square snaps in my early years, when I looked rather happier than I usually do now!

[Eleena]

Caran,
we never ever imagine we will be any different, I didnt. Of course we are. Well fone, takes some doing to make a change, takes commitment.

[kvalidir]

Exactly Eleena, even things taken last year don't seem like me anymore :/

[Eleena]

OG, I like that, so true. Every day we change with new experiences.

[Eleena]

Well done Caran.

[goodgoalie]

Even stranger is seeing moving images of yourself from years ago. Some TV shows I did nearly 40 years ago have recently been uploaded to the internet, and watching them was very weird, and I had to look away at a few points!

[kvalidir]

Are you an actor GG? x

[goodgoalie]

Musician. These were from a long-defunct TV show recorded in Manchester which someone somewhere had got hold of; but a Top of the Pops I did with Robert Palmer in 1991 was recently repeated on a BBC special on Motown covers, and even that was a strange experience - could just about remember doing it (and Wogan the same day)

[Eleena]

goodgoalie,
luckily my dad had a cine camera and captured lots of family moments, so I have some lovely memories on film.

[Eleena]

Brilliant, what show was it goodgoalie?