I lived in several places growing up, attending most of my elementary school years in Cedar City, Utah; going to junior high in Wichita, Kansas; and attending high school in Grace, Idaho. Because of this, I know people from all over. But because I haven't been back to those places, I fear that no one even remembers who I am. I have been able to connect with a few key friends from those places, thankful that someone remembers me, but I know that most people wouldn't remember the shy, brown-eyed girl that was usually too timid to exert herself, and then moved away. I don't even have yearbooks from the past because they were in a box in our garage when a pipe froze and then burst, flooding everything.
Sometimes I look back upon my childhood and wonder if those memories I seem to have even happened at all. I think my hazy past has something to do with my obsession now with scrapbooking, my desire to document our lives, to make a record of my children's activities. I'm so thankful for the invention of the digital camera which completely erases any hesitancy to snap away as many pictures as I want.
I treasure the few pictures I have of my childhood. A few years back I encouraged my dad to scan and digitize some of the slides they had accumulated over the years. I know it was a labor of love, very time consuming. It has been like getting back a portion of my youth, validating for me that those memories were real. Thank you, Dad. It means a lot to me.
4 comments:
This has happened to me several times ~ I too lived many places growing up. More often than not, when I get up the nerve to contact the person, they usually remember me. I've only had one time where a person just thought I "sounded familiar."
I love your pictures ~ what a cutie you were and are!
The last picture reminds me of Erica. When I was scrolling down, at a glance, I thought it was her. I was very shy in school too.
I was always the shy girl with brown hair too. I grew up in one place and the same school. However, I still have all of these same feelings you are expressing. I run into someone who I went to school with since kindergarden and I don't approach them because I'm so sure they would have no clue who I was. I look back on my childhood and wish that I would have broken out of my shy shell long ago. Here's hoping we can both take the leap and remember we are confident women now and just say hello.
I'm a go for it gal - and LOVE to tell other people to go for it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
AND, how can someone not remember someone as cute as you?
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