Over the years I reflect on times gone by and remember all the good and bad times I have experienced. I don't ever wish that bad experiences never happened because that would in turn change who I am now. No I don't wish they never happened, I just try to extract from them whatever lesson I can and move forward and make sure that I don't repeat that experience in my future. After all I wouldn't be the person I am today if I had not experienced both the good and bad.
Memories to me are like so many books I have up in that library I call my brain. Every once in a while it is nice to dust off one of those books and relive a time in your life that made you happy to be a kid, excited that your first kiss was so thrilling, nervous that you won't pass the driving test the first time. Of course sometimes dusting off those scary books isn't as tempting but you need to at least read a few pages of that book so that you aren't haunted by the things you fear.
Every once in a while I get reminders of books hidden way in the back in the corner of my mind that have several inches of dust on them. I dust off the cover and barely recognize it. I think to myself...is this even my memory? Did that get re-filed in the wrong library? Of course once I open the cover long forgotten memories start to trickle back to the fore front.
It's fun to relive long forgotten times in your life and think back to how you felt and how the world was around you. Just today I was able to relive a time in my life that was fun and carefree. I was on facebook just looking at pictures on different friends pages when a face came across my screen. I had not seen this face in about 36 years but I just new who it was! I couldn't believe my eyes! It was my best friend from first grade! She had moved away back then and I was heartbroken. She was the sweetest friend I had ever known and she was gone and I didn't know whatever happened to her.
I thought about my best friends many times over these 36 years very fondly and wished her well in whatever she was doing with her life. I always pictured her in my mind as the petite, blond girl with a sweet smile. I never in a million years expected her to suddenly come up on facebook on another friends page and smile at me like she did so long ago.
Of course I did not delay! I sent her a friend request and hoped that she would at least remember my name and where I new her from. I didn't think she would have the same cherished memories I had from my childhood.
Not long after my friend request I received confirmation of her friend acceptance and she wrote me asking if I was the person she new in first grade. That made my day! She remembered me!! I hope to continue my corespondence with my best friend from first grade in the future. She was such a positive person to me at that time in my life when other things in my life weren't as bright and happy. I will always consider her a blessing to me.
I used to fear my old library of memories but as time moves on I have learned that dusting off those old memory books can sometimes lead to some wonderful new memories and can also lead to positive revelations from whatever good or bad experiences you may have had. But you know me I think that all memories can only bring positive things if you let them and see them in that light.
So I hope these few words will help you to want to brouse through that library in your mind and dust off a book of memories or two and delve into those forgotten memories. You never know who you might reconnect with!
Have a positively blessed evening!
