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.

[Eleena]

I just go to bed, up way too late, work early doors. Thanks everyone, night x

[Eleena]

*must* ... night x

[Peter Pedant]

took years to get over the
"this is an expensive luxury"
and move onto that it recorded social progress

ho hum - two photos covered three years at uni

[kvalidir]

Night night Eleena x

[goodgoalie]

That would be telling :) Also got a shock a while back when I saw myself on an old 15-to-1 on Challenge. Couldn't believe it!

I think old home cine/Super 8 film is very evocative, and nearly always sad, even sadder than old photos can often be. Many years ago I was at my Mum and Dad's looking at some old photos and was in floods of tears. My Dad asked my Mum what was wrong with me. She's said 'he's looking through that box of old photographs'. My Dad : well, tell him not to look at them. Never, ever saw my father cry.

[silliemillie]

Not only for myself but , and this may sound weird, I was watching and old episode of "play your cards Right" and it was a newlyweds special.

The couples were smiling lovingly at each other and holding hands and I wondered to myself, are they still together? Have children/Gchildren? Or are they divorced, hating each other, re married, or even still alive even?

[clyde59]

How time flies by,good to look back on though.

[david small]

Looking through our past photographs evokes many emotions some embarrassing, some amusing. Often it makes us muse, was that really me? The thing that comes to my mind is the fleeting nature of our brief lives, and how we should enjoy and love those we share our lives with.

[rowanwitch]

Some of me very small with my dad show a normal happy outgoing toddler, then he died after that if I appear in any at all I am the fat kid trying to hide or looking away. The only time I had a lot of photos taken was my two weddings. In the first I was an insecure girl in my early twenties, the second a fat happy woman in my mind fifties. The change was amazing even having lived through it. The rest of my life I pretty much made sure I was the one behind the camera unless my sister was taking them. She is the only one who has photographed me and made me feel good about how I looked.
I always took a few of Dave where ever we went they always make me smile

[horselady]

My son visited last weekend and we got the box of old photographs out as my daughter-in-law had never seen them. Stirred up loads of emotions seeing people no longer here. One comment from my son was "god mum, you were quite a looker weren't you?" obviously he's used to seeing the raddled old bat I now am (sigh)

[david small]

I once did some work for a little hunched over lady. She was sweet but shrivelled and wrinkled and very old. She showed me a photograph of when she was in her twenties.... Wow, she was an absolute stunner, gorgeous beautiful, adorable. To think of the same soul still dwelling
In the old lady was quite an eye opener.

[kvalidir]

Yeah I get that sense when I look at my partner David as he's nearly 30 years older than me, (but doesn't look it or act it). I look at photos of when he was 20 and then realise that he's lived 30 years past the age I am now already and that when our children are my age he'll be 70, which considering all the men in his family die early 60's is quite a sad thought. Hope he's the exception to the rule x

[Ken4155]

My local paper often features school photographs from bygone eras and, just a few months before she died (2012), my mother pointed to such a photo in the paper and said, "I think that's me." I said, "What do you mean, you 'think' it's you?" To which she replied, "Well, there are no surviving photos of me at that age and i've sort of forgotten what i looked like then. But i'm sure that's me." I found that statement rather sad as i took millions of snaps of my children when they were toddlers.

[paddywak]

A friend of mine recently found a photo, of the face team we were with at the time,on a night out at the Aquarius Club Chesterfield in the early 70's, all ragged up and looking to kill. I can't believe how smart and fit we all were,sadly most of the boys are gone and those who are left are all old and knackered.

[theshedman]

Granddaughter asked me who is that in the photo. I said it was me and she didn't believe me as I am now a lot heavier and my jet black hair has now turned almost white. Where have the years gone.

[hereIam]

When I'm feeling nostalgic I look at old photos and it is always, always bittersweet. How time flies and how we change.