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Monday 4/9/2006
Old photos/Are kids depressed
Date: 9/4/2006 7:31:33 PM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 1600 times My mum decided to clean out the attic. I don't live at home anymore but I was helping out anyway. We found loads of old photos and I was putting them in albums. A lot of them were of me as a little kid. My mum kept commenting that I was so happy then before I got 'complex'. (I think she was refering to my taste in music and clothes though I'm not sure.)
But I wasn't happy then (when I was 'normal') either. I can remember. I can remember back to when I was 1 actually, though I only have clear memories from about 3. I can't remember how I felt that young but I DO remember that by the time I started school - or 8 at the very latest - I was far from happy. Actually I recall lying in bed at night wishing I would die at about that age.
A lot of adults seem to think that children are always happy. Maybe some children are. But mostly I think when people get older they tend to forget what it's like. They say your school years are the best years of your life. I wouldn't live them again for all the money in the world.
There was a point to this entry (other than to rant). Photographs can tell the truth. But they can lie aswell. We only tend to take photographs of our families at happy times. The prints we have are memories, but selective ones, good and no bad. They're only a part of the past, not what it was really like.
Smile for the camera!
Ni bhaith liom scriobh. Ta se 01:30.
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