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Go back

Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?

Sometimes I answer these questions without looking back at my previous year’s answer. Or when I do go back and look, I build on that answer with new information gathered over the new year. But when I went back and looked at my answer to this question it gave me pause.

Last year’s short piece titled Re-live was about going back to the year before my dad died to get a lot more stories and information from him. To have life not changed so dramatically after his passing.

If I had to choose again, I guess I might re-live last year. In some ways I felt like I wasted some time adjusting to retirement and didn’t take full advantage of it. I should have been doing a lot more.

Families doing their own portrait work. Photo by Mike Hartley

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Re-live

Is there an age or year of life you would re-live? – Interesting thought from the Daily Writing prompt.

I thought for a while about this before starting to formulate an answer. Maybe 1964 or 1965, the years before my father passed. I would stick to him like glue finding everything I could about the man. A time when I was a carefree youth and loss/pain hadn’t touched my life yet.

A time when we were a family. A time when my Mom didn’t cry. A time when my sister smiled. A few minutes of youth that the world hadn’t exploded into chaos yet and the realities of life hadn’t smacked me in the face yet.

And it’s taken me almost 6 decades to learn how not to be such a live wire, to relax, and let life flow again. Better late than never.

Wired to the Past. Photo by Mike Hartley