Old photographs make for a fun filled post-lunch session. Recently when I was home, I went through our regular routine of cupboard re-organisation. A bagful of old albums are taken out, spread on the double bed, and the flashback begins, often not ending until dinner is served.
This time was no exception, I found a small paper sachet with a few additions to my Dad's collection of passport size photographs. Dad has this habit of retaining one photograph everytime he takes a fresh set of eight photographs. So, the cover had about 10-12 photos of Dad at various stages of life - resulting in this panorama.
It is amazing how time wears a face out, how you can look back year on year and see how faces change. Some lines are welcome, some take a little sheen off the personality. Hairlines recede, the skin puffs up, the different hairstyles symbolic of the era all leaving you with memories of each phase.
sipping hot,light tea as there was more milk than water, I and veena chanced upon your collections nicely beaded.
ReplyDeleteTrue,this classically depicts how age
affects silently yet significantly
and irreversibly.
--anna
That is a wonderful idea. I wonder if it is too late for me to start doing this.
ReplyDeletegreat find :)
ReplyDeleteMetamorphosis! Nicely recorded :)
ReplyDeleteThis is excellent, I liked your idea, Writing from raleigh NC US,
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Prasanna