A Day In The Life

Last night a childhood friend sent me a photo via Facebook messaging. I had never seen the photo before, had no recollection of who took it, where it was taken or when it was taken. It was jarring to see my face as a teenager staring back at me, familiar yet unfamiliar. A moment caught in time, not a special occasion, just friends hanging out together and someone must have had a camera and taken the pic. A moment lost to memory, making me realize there must be so many of those moments lost to time, to the years, to life moving forward and leaving just traces of the person I was behind. New friends, new experiences, replacing the past. My friend said she figured it was the year we were in 8th grade, probably 13 or 14 years old. It is hard to believe almost 50 years have gone by since then. Makes me think about how so much has been forgotten, has become unimportant, how little I knew then, how little I may still know….