A look back in time...

I've really gotten into this old picture business. It's just so much fun to look back on what people looked like and the things they did back when our Grandparents were young. It's funny, I've always thought of my grandparents as grandparents, and older members of my family just as I see them now. It's hard to imagine them being my age. There are pictures of my grandfather in his baseball uniform...and of my Aunt Alda and her husband in the grass infront of their old school. She said on Saturdays driving around and going places is what they did for fun. It's fun to look back, to open my thoughts to the entire life they led before I ever came about. Somehow I wish I could've known them...then. How different it would've been! Did they laugh about the same things I laugh about now? What about the jokes my friends and I share? I love to laugh...were they as playful as I can be? What about insecurities...and passions? Was their skin a little thicker? Or did they cry after a bad day like I have many times? Although the same people are inside, I just find myself wondering who they were and how they acted when these pictures were taken. During the height of sundresses and high heels, getting married so young, raising children, and spending Saturday afternoons piling into a car together just to go somewhere to have a picnic. I know this is odd to think about...but I can't help it. It just strikes me that these people I love and have become so attached to had as many as 50-70 years of life behind them before I came to know them. Living, and all of the experiences of life mold and shape us forever until our lives come to a close. Who were they and how did they act then?