The past, reminiscing, now.
 

1/ Over the past few nights mum, the wife and I have been looking at slides. As in film. We have been looking at our early family life (not the wife's). Me at 6 years old in uniform going to school. My eldest brother as a teenager playing football. The dogs we have owned. My parents as a young couple. (My father looked like a hipster.) The family going on bush walks.

The last time I saw my father before he passed away he was old and frail and not quite all there. My mother recently had a stent put in a major artery. My eldest brother's body has been ravished my cancer (now in remission). The scariest?, most worrisome? weirdest? thing is when I now look in the mirror there seems to be this old version of me looking back.

2/ When my not oldest brother (I have 2 older brothers) was about 20 he said something to my grandfather. I don't quite remember the exact words but he said something like "Grandpa, you talk a lot about the past" or "Grandpa, you live in the past". My grandfather replied with something like "Yes, but you don't have a past". It is only now that I understood what he meant.

3/ I can tell you some of the things I have done but I can't account for most of my life. I don't know how I got to this age. Actually, it is somewhat surprising I have made it this far considering some of the crazy shit I used to do.

We all learn from our past. It's why they also teach us history in school.

I am still 21 and I can relate to my recent past, and the changes I have made. I wouldn't like to share the changes because it is too personal but all I would like to say is that I have changed for the better.

I regret nothing. There is nothing I can do to change my past so I keep my head high and move forward.

In for @humfrz stories
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And @Tcoat for another +:popcorn:

I don't know. Snooze seems way to solemn in that first post for me to feel comfortable telling stories yet.

OMG we need a Tcoat story thread where we will compile all your great stories. @Atticus808

Since we are getting all feely in here.....

The only thing I'm disappointed in is my career. Not because I have a bad job, I have a pretty good job actually, but because I never became what I wanted. Since I was a kid I wanted to be a cop, and I tried working towards it. The only thing that held me back was my vision, and I didn't want to get laser eye surgery. Now I also have a shoulder that has been dislocated so there's no way i'd pass the physical now.

I usually think about that at least a couple of times a month and it eats away at me cause i'll never be satisfied with my job.

But, the thing that gets me over that is I keep reminding myself that I really should not think about my career as such a big priority. What I do currently gives me enough money and time to enjoy myself and spend time with family and friends. Spend as much time as possible with them and stop working so much. There are people who move to different cities and end up ending a long term relationship with their significant others, I don't know of anyone personally that has done that but I do know it happens. Why would anyone ever do that?

Seriously, people get way to damn caught up in their work today and forget about their friends and family.

and wtf did i just end up typing? :(

I remember, back in the day, my grandfather (a farmer) and I, sitting around the stove at the feed store/grain mill, waiting for the load of corn to be ground into cow feed. He and his old cronies, all dressed in bib overalls and long sleeved shirts, would tell stories, non- stop about their childhood living on a farm.

My other grandfather, who was a coal miner from West Virginia, would sit in our living room in front of the fireplace, always dressed in a white shirt, and pull his gold pocket watch from his vest pocket and tell all us kids collected around, well, I have just enough time for one more story.

So, I come from a long line of bull shitters …… errrrr …… I mean story tellers …..:D


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Once again any thread with such stories would seem forced and artificial. They need to spring up unplanned when something sparks a memory to be any good.

Ture. I thought about it and they will all be out of context too so they won't be as funny/good. Another poor idea was brought to you by Go, now back to your regularly scheduled thread