I love looking through old photo albums and old pictures. It is fun to take trips down memory lane to when my life was simpler. Of course, I know now that a simple life for a child is produced by very hardworking parents. The world that they and my family created for me was an incredibly loving environment and how I love to remember those times.
I have a lot of old pictures all over the place. Some of them are in albums. Those are mostly ones that Mom put together. I have a few of my own as well. I believe that Uncle Bill got all of Grandmother's photo albums, but I used to sit in her den and study those pictures for hours. Of course, lots of times I was looking at the antiques in the pictures LOL But it was still fun, and I always felt like I learned something each and every time I went through those albums.
These photos are such wonderful records of history. Looking at pictures from different eras and seeing how people lived and how they dressed and what their homes looked like. I try to carry some of those things with me currently, being the old soul that I am! My Great Aunt Mary Lee and her husband had more professional portraits taken than anyone else I have ever known. I believe it must have been something they did every year from the time they were married until Bunyan's death.
I love looking at pictures, not necessarily of myself, and seeing how people aged. I feel like people from my Grandmother's generation aged so much more gracefully than people do now. I don't exactly know why that is, just the way that I feel. But I like to see pictures of my relatives as young adults and how they evolved throughout their lifetimes. It fascinates me.
As much as I enjoy looking at pictures on my phone and seeing what people post on social media, it is just not the same as flipping through an old album. It is the same way I feel about reading. I would much rather have a book in my hand than to read an ebook. I'm old fashioned that way and would not change that for anything. I wish I had more photo albums to peruse but I am happy with the ones that I do have. They are good memories and fill my hearts with gladness when I open them up.
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