I've been in Jersey since Monday night, and it hasn't exactly been a thrilling trip. I don't really know anyone beside family out here any more, so I've spent a lot of time watching TV, fixing some things, and not much else. It doesn't feel like there are any new experiences to be had over here anymore.
One of my cousins wanted some old photos for some project she's putting together, so my mom and I went through all the old albums. It was surprising to see all the photos of when I was a kid. I barely know anything about the people in the photos anymore. They all seemed so important at the time, and now they're completely irrelevant. Then there were the photos of the family, some of them going back as far as 1914. It was weird to look at photos in which everyone had passed on. Unpleasant to think about how little they left behind. My mom also has a lot of photos all over the condo. I'm not sure how I feel about having to look at dead people everywhere I go.
It really hasn't been that bad of a trip. Thanksgiving was nice at my cousin's place. I got to catch up with everyone, sort of. It was nice seeing my mom, my uncle, my sister and her husband. It'll be nice to be back in California though.
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I'm not sure what I think of pictures of people who have passed on. I guess on the one hand, I'm not going to remove their pictures just because they died. But on the other hand I wouldn't want to end up with tons of pictures of people who are no longer with us. I think that would depress me.
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