Yesterday I was looking into my archives for some old pictures. Pictures of when I was a little kid. I got many. Those studio pictures of birthdays and special occasions. Scanned versions and sepia tone because there were no digital cameras when I was growing up.
The thought that hit me was about time how it is going by too fast. Day after day, month after month and year after year – it feels as if time has picked up pace. In reality, nothing of that sort has really happened. A second is a second long and nothing less.
As a 7-year-old I wasn’t thinking that at 36, I will think of these things.
Isn’t it strange that all we long for is time? When it’s good, we want it to go slow down and when it’s hard, we want it to pass.
I clicked this picture in Mawlynnong, Meghalaya. These kids were playing and running with a plastic football and I had a tete-e-tete with my thoughts seeing them play.
I am participating in the third edition of BarAthon and today is day 5. Also tagging this picture to Wordless Wednesday. My #65 this week.
happiness and food 
So true!
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We all have been there , done that
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Mawlynnong-the cleanest place had been a beautiful discovery for us during our Shillong – Cherrapunji trip. I guess as we grow old, we all realize how fast time flies and how essential it is to live in the moment.
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It is true, that when times are great we want it slow and when they are hard, we want it to pass! The latter is a bit like how I feel at the moment…Beautiful picture of kids playing…that sense of spontaneous free play that makes this picture so precious.
My Day 5 post: https://mysoultalks.com/2018/07/11/give-me-five/
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My father has a collection of photographs too. Right from his childhood – mostly black and white (and some sepia toned ones too!). In many ways, he says he is happy that digital photos didn’t exist then – because they took limited photos and the ones they took, meant more. Of course, he could have been taking a dig at me. I end up with multiple versions of the same photos 😀
Jokes aside, i feel this way about time when I look at Rishi. I can’t believe that he’s 6 already and growing up quick. Sigh!
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The high energy levels of the younger days and innocent ways of living life is all that we miss as we grow. time is definitely running at a peed faster than the speed of light!
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I do have a few pictures from my growing up years but it can never be compared with the current period when you click as much as you want. I feel people thee days don’t get their pictures printed and somehow also lose them due to variety of reasons – hard disk problems, losing mobile phone and so on…
Prints are forever. I make sure that all important pictures are printed….for creating a “photo-vault”. There’s no tech involved in print…no compatibility issues as well! Whats’ your opinion?
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Oh yes, time flies when the going is good though we certainly want it to fly during trying times but whichever is the phase of life time is running!
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I love how you have composed this shot and then built your post around it. I could relate the carefree feeling of kids playing with the image you have built up of time flying by. Sometimes it does feel like our carefree days are over so quickly and now we are just caught in the turmoil of daily grind. Is life really all about this?
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Lovely picture. Innocence of children nicely captured.
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Children are the only ones who are happy with the least that they can have. Their tiny joys are so heartwarming.
Thank you, Parul for bringing memories back from my very own childhood.
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How true, Parul! Though time is the only thing that remains the same neither flying nor pausing we feel that time’s flying by! Bit nostalgic all those photos make us, right? This a cute click, Parul.
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Such a spontaneous click, Parul. The boys do look like they are having a lot of fun. Agree with you how time seems to fly by so fast. Looking back at photos can indeed bring back many fond memories and remind you memories that you might even have forgotten. You could even spend a whole day looking at photos and reminiscing. Sometimes when I’m bored I do that. I like to take photos and have thousands of them 😀
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