Finding old pictures
Whenever I dig into my old stuff the question always creeps into my head, "What would I tell that kid if I could tell him anything?" You are going to do OK for yourself but in a quiet, unspectacular way. He (I) already knew that. In fact I took that for granted. You are going to lose people that mean the world to you and you will never stop grieving for them. I knew that too ( we all do ) but I would have never admitted as much, preferring to only recognize those bitter truths as I was being run over by them. I suppose I couldn't resist giving some sage advice but I wouldn't listen to myself. I remember making a point of not acting on good advice when dispensed by anyone professing to know what life was really about. All in all it's a good thing time travel isn't possible. Aside from being freaked out by my wrinkly old self showing up to tell me crap I knew but didn't have the courage to act on, I would have been angered that all the suspense and my...