Reminiscing…
Reminiscing is perhaps not the right word, however I spent some time the other day looking through some old photos….old digital photos, and since I have only used digital cameras for about 4 years the pictures aren`t that old. But the amount of things that have changed makes it seem like a lot longer….
I look so young, people I knew then look so young……( I have nothing much to write about but do have the urge to blog about something!)….There are so many memories attached to photos. Perhaps looking at them reminded me of what I used to be like…I am not saying I have changed that much but my life certainly has…….there are photos of highschool friends, some of which I haven`t seen since then. I keep in contact with only a few highschool friends…although facebook is making it possible to get in contact with people again. A lot of people in these photos all still hang out together from what I can tell…Perhaps next time I am in Australia I should make more of an effort to catch up with highschool mates…A lot of them couldn`t care less about what is going on in my life though, but at least I could say I made the effort!!!
I have known em, in this photos with me, since we were five. Yes we are in a bathtub!!! In surf lifesaving outfits that belonged to the same girl that owned the bathtub
Em, Sim, me and Ben. Ben and I knew each other a long time, we dated for a couple of months before I moved to Japan, after my my highschool first love type relationship ended! We are dressed in green for some friends netball final…they were called the ribits!
My 19th birthday…about six weeks before I moved to Japan to go on exchange for a year!
Two friends I am still very much in touch with. Duck and Nic…Nic was here in Japan for a year up until about April, and Duck and I met properly for the first time when we were 16, on a drunken week away at stradbroke Island. He was one of the best friends of my ex boyf, Jake…who I also met that week. Jake and I no longer keep in touch but the other two guys I met that week, Duck and Wingnut are still floating around in my life. I catch up with duck whenever I am back in Australia, he is great mate! I miss having Nic around in Japan, I got used to having her here and then she had to go home….but luckily thanks to email and facebook we still keep in regular contact!!!
Wingnut, Duck and Jake
Playing dressups in the middle of the night! Claire and Em
Anna, the blond girl in this photo next to me is someone I regret not keeping in touch with more. But as anyone reading this will know sometimes things happen that can not be undone…and with us, something like that happened…She is on my facebook though! Her and I were pretty close…it was her bathtub I was in in that first photo! She is well though, one of my best Aussie friends Clare, keeps me up to date on the comings and goings of the group of people I hung out with then. Maybe one day we will be close friends again!
This is little Clarie. I love her to bits…She is one of those people that can let anything go I think, she just has a big heart, and can see the best in anyone….We became best buddies when we were 14…and while I relationship had a lot of ups and downs I guess you could say, we came out of the highschool drama, the uni drama, the friends drama ok!
After looking at some of the really old photos, I looked at some of the photos taken in the 10 months I spent back in Australia after my first year in Japan. A lot of photos of from when Shumpei and I first got together and when he came to Australia….I can not believe we met almost three years ago now. Maybe I will post some of them another time!
It is nice to look back on old photos! I might be going back to Australia next year to live for six months or so…I think that is one of the reasons I was looking back on old photos. Nothing will be the same as it was in that year after highschool….nobody had moved on, nothing had really changes. And now, like I said, I don`t even know some of these people anymore…but looking at the photos from that time, the same people popped up in all of them. I am not sure I would want life to be back the way it was then, I have changed and my friendships have changed….but it was nice to revisit it for a bit, even if it was just in photo form!
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I think I know what you mean! Some things in life change for better or worse, others stay the same….People follow different paths..and sometimes you take the same paths and stick together..other times you drift apart. Life is what you make it and I think you are the type of person who will always be lucky to have people around. Sure, it will be different coming back here next year if that’s what you decide to do but you’ll get used to it and enjoy making new friends and getting in touch with the old ones. I hope you do come back! It would be great to hangout together!