Saturday Photo Hunt – Youth

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Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants.I’ve been thinking about this week’s photo hunt pretty much all week. ‘Youth’ is a pretty relevant topic to me at the moment with the transition from my 20’s to my 30’s, getting grey hairs, needing glasses, losing family members and all the other things in life that remind me that I’m a grown up now. No matter how much I don’t want to be.

I can’t just choose one photo for this theme, instead I will post a small series of photos.

Two of the most important and influential people in my life, my father and his mother. This is my favorite of all my family photos.

It’s hard to believe they were so young once and to imagine what life was like then. My grandmother left my grandfather when my father was three because he was abusive. This was a pretty brave thing for a woman to do in the 50’s. She raised him together with her sister and her mother. She was one of the strongest, smartest and most loving people I’ve ever known…

You can also see the mischeif in my father’s face in that photo too. He hasn’t changed a bit!

My parents when they were babies. Don’t you just love how photos were done back then? I love black and white photos but the color photos back then were so soft and gentle, it worked so nicely for baby photos. Seeing my parents as babies is strange, seeing their faces when they were so young and imagining when they were someone elses children rather than the parent of a child themselves.

I wonder will someone ever look at my childhood photos that way. My children or their children, looking at this photo and trying to see a resemblance to the woman they know.

When I’m 80 will I look back at this photo and still recognize myself?

Will I still wish that I could go back in time and be that age again? I do now all the time, but I think when I’m 80 I’ll probably wish I could be 31 again too…

I love how I look so angelic and innocent in this photo! I think I actually was like that back then, still so young and naive. No sign of the evil bitch I’ve apparently grown up to be!