When I was a kid, I was probably happy
Me as a barely conscious toddler.
I could swear I remember this event, but do I really?
Could it be a fake memory, invented to fit the picture. I know it's me as it passed down the family. But can I trust that I really do remember the moment this was taken? It’s interesting to me as this is one of the few images of me at this age.
Maybe my ambiguity about this memory is a good thing. I suspect most of our early childhood memories are hazy, unless we had a trauma maybe. I still vividly remember looking up out of my pram at a blue sky, being posed on a scratchy three piece sofa for a formal photo, and, maybe, a little less certainly, sitting on this cushion in a neighbours’ drive.
These days most kids will grow up with a fully documented and time-lined social media presence thanks to parents and relatives. How are they going to deal with that? Will there still be enough uncertainty?
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Yes, parents these days take a lot of photographs of their kids. But they are not getting preserved as memories like they used to be in the past days. Back then few photographs were taken but were preserved. There is a different pleasure in looking at your album.
I suppose people will find a way of dealing wth the digital versions somehow. I suspect a revival of some kind of formal portrait photos will emerge.
You were cute and sweet 😊💜
I've heard that no one remembers anything from the first three years of life. I know my earliest memories are at age 4.
I like the idea of a fake memory to fit the picture though. I wonder sometimes how accurate those memories from age 4 really are...
....I wonder how accurate most of my memories are! ;-)
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