Sunshine, July and Daily Tangents #15 Baby
Hello and welcome to the 15th blog post of my little project: Sunshine, July and Daily Tangents.
Today's word is Baby and if you've been following my blog for at least the past year you will know that I have many posts based on motherhood and babies. I am not a mum however I am a daughter and sister which lead to a natural curiosity towards this area of life. This post, however, is not going to be another instalment of the motherhood-themed blog posts. With this blog-every-day in July project, my aim is to think creatively and drift away from the obvious theme.
I typically explore where my mind naturally wanders to when I think of the days topic and sometimes I have to do a bit of research until I find something I'm passionate/enthusiastic about. Today I got to about half 3 in the afternoon, after a morning of procrastinating away from today's post, when a thought finally popped up.
Babys represent life and growth and these past few weeks I've seen my life in photographs and school books and old drawings up to artwork now, created recently. Only yesterday I found a very old photograph from when I was in maybe my second year of school. It's my classmates, my teachers and my little self sat in the sports hall where we would have PE and Assembly. It is a very strange feeling to look at the people I grew up with just before we all grew older. I found myself looking at new parents, homeowners, university students and drivers (goodness me it was a surprise to see people on the road) alongside faces I don't remember at all.
It's lovely to see those cheeky grins smiling at the camera but it also makes me a little bit sad. It's odd to have this hindsight and know some of the crazy shizz and some quite wonderful things that are to occur in the lives of these children in the photograph. We've all grown in looks and personality which is life and, you know, that's what happens. Nevertheless, it's still a shock when I learn of something new in the life of these now strangers. Even then I'm surprised at my surprise because of course there's going to be new developments- we're living life!
I think why I wanted to talk about this is because I'm at a cusp of adulthood and I miss the innocence and simplicity of when I was a youngin. Looking through my old school books I can literally see myself growing and learning. I think learning is one of the most positive and brilliant things to have on Earth and especially now in my life I can see how all of those things help me out. And not everything I learnt is what I use today but I think the practice of sitting down and concentrating on something is a really good skill.
As human beings, we are continuously changing, developing and improving and most recently I find myself wanting things to slow down a bit. I was on a train a few months ago that was pausing at a station when I looked outside to see an advertisement poster on a giant tablet that kept switching to various company ads. I was baffled by this huge use of technology so casual in sight.
Not only this but places like Mcdonalds are in ownership of these giant tablets. You see people walking along the road talking to themselves when they are actually on the phone and using the headphones in their ears to chat. Gadgets are being installed in homes where you simply have to talk to them for them to quickly talk back and comply with your request. And phone numbers! You no longer need to remember someone's number as you can type their name in your phone.
One extinction that makes me sad is the development of photographs not needing the classic process; darkroom photography. Which by the way is such a fun thing to do.
Of course, the fact that we are able to make changes, develop and explore other routes of living is brilliant and what keeps us going. Without this, it's possible that things would get very boring very quickly. It is incredible what we do have and I can only dream of what the future will be like in years to come.
It's an odd thing, life; this growing and changing from a baby to what I call "adulthood"- always with the speech marks.
As ever, thank you for reading this blog post. I will see you tomorrow on day 16: Library.
Love,
Buddy xx
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