Friday 1 October 2010

Me as a little girl!

The camera doesn't like me.....
.....but now we are friends!
Me in the garden of the house I grew up in.  I would have been aged about 4 here!
Me at nursery, in the front row clearly wondering why my photo is being taken!   Actually, I really love this photo.
This must have been me in P1 so I would have been aged about four and a half!  Every photo I had taken at school at a young age was one where I had a snotty nose!


The other thing I also think of when I see this photo is how I remember hating primary school as I got bullied (until my Mother intervened and told the little girls mother what she was doing to me, after which made things a little easier but I was always the outsider).  Overall therefore I didn't enjoy primary as I was different from all the other kids who were there and I am grateful now for that as otherwise I would not be who I am today (warts and all) - funny though how looking at these photos I don't necessarily see why I was so different apart from having the snotty nose!  Now I am also thinking of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice "if you prick us do I not bleed?  If you tickle us do we not laugh?" - and I am smiling now as I write!
Me in the garden of the house I grew up in, aged about 4 or 5
Photos are like paintings in that they portray a snapshot in time for a memory or actual event/place and when right they leave an impression.  For me, when I look at these photos I can definitely see me the person being formed albeit I have changed a great deal (otherwise that would be creepy wouldn't it!)!
Me as I am today, flashback this morning!

  1. Photo 1 - part of a set which started off me wondering what the photo booth was all about and ended up me crying as I couldn't understand why it was flashing at me!
  2. Photo 2 - Being coy, sweet, cute and lovable, sometimes that is still true, really!
  3. Photo 3 - I am sometimes curious and my face does tend to show what I am thinking, especially if I don't understand something and am trying to work it out - something I do a lot as life is not all black and white there are many shades of grey and that is what makes it interesting.
  4. Photo 4 - I am me, not picture perfect and flawed and happy!  
  5. Photo 5 - sometimes awkward and impatient, yet dutiful in doing what someone I love really wants me to do which I know will make them happy!
  6. Photo 6 - still playing around with cameras and new i-phone apps (thanks Anika for telling me about this one, you were right I love it). 
Hope you have a great time flashing back to your past memories too and a fantastic weekend in the process which will make for great memories for the future.
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8 comments:

  1. Tia Colleen1 October 2010 at 14:44

    I think the pictures of you in the garden are the best. Did you ever read or see the secret garden? This post brought back memories of that, for me.

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  2. Ashley Sisk1 October 2010 at 14:57

    This is a great flashback. I love all the pictures of you. Your face has so much character and I love it!

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  3. R Montalban1 October 2010 at 15:26

    Hi Tia and Ashley, thanks so much for leaving me notes. I have not read the secret garden and am now curious! I hope those memories were good ones though Tia!!! Ashley, I am glad you love my face, someone has to ;-) and if I could give you a hug I would you are fab (full stop, period!).

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  4. Jamie2 October 2010 at 02:35

    I love seeing you as a little girl and thinking about the life that led to the amazing woman you are today

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  5. R Montalban2 October 2010 at 06:55

    Jamie, you are incredibly generous to me by saying I must be amazing today - WOW, that is quite a compliment and not one that I feel worthy of but I really do thank you for as coming from you I know it is sincere and heartfelt and I am humbled and extremely honoured by it xo

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  6. Anika2 October 2010 at 17:57

    Really wonderful post. You're awesome.

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  7. scrappysue2 October 2010 at 22:27

    it's amazing how old photos colour or lose their colour over the years. you're looking super cute now tho!

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  8. an9e1a5 October 2010 at 05:06

    Aw, I just love this! That first photo that shows you crying is so sad, but I still love it and the whole group of them, showing all the emotion and memories layered throughout. You inspire me to do one of my own!

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