Never Forget

I was reminded yesterday of how important it is to remember those loved ones who have passed away. I went with my dad and sister to put a small American flag next to my grandpa's grave because he had served in them military. It had been at least a year or more since I'd been to his gravesite. As we got out of the car I started trying to remember the person that my grandpa was. It turns out it had been a while since I had actually given that much thought to remembering who he was. All of a sudden I started to remember all the things that he used to do, the interactions that I had with him before he died when I was 12 years old. It was amazing to me that I really had forgotten about those interactions, just because I had not intentionally tried to remember.

If you have a loved one that has passed away either a long time ago, or recently I would charge you to always remember who they were as a person. Remember the interactions that you had with them. Remember the quirky things they used to do that made you laugh or put a smile on your face. Never get caught up in the busyness of life that you forget about those who have come before you.

I remember as a kid whenever I would see my grandpa in church he would give me one of those Werther's original butterscotch candies.
I remember when I would stay at my grandma and grandpa's house he would always fix me a snack that always consisted of grape jelly spread over bread.
I remember playing wiffle ball in his front yard (as seen in picture above)
I remember when he had false teeth and he would take them out just to kinda creep me out and make me laugh.

Do you have a loved one that has passed away?
What do you remember about that person?

Never forget about them

memories

Do you ever think about 30 years from now when we are floating around in our electric powered cars, and doing whatever futuristic thing you can think of, do you ever think about when we get on facebook how many tangible memories we are going to have. Or maybe they are less tangible than I think, but at least viewable memories.

At least for me, I'll be able to look back on all my pictures, and videos and just laugh and at the things that we are doing now. Specifically I was thinking about me and my roommate's video blog. I just know that I'm going to watch those videos and just laugh hysterically. Not only videos, but also pictures. Just think about the amount of pictures that we are going to as memories compared to our parents. I know for my parents they didn't take a large amount of pictures in their teen and college years. I've seen some, but not near as many as we are going to have at their age.

I mean, just think about the ridiculous amount of pictures that one can take on a single SD card. It is absolutely astounding. And in this post I've been talking about facebook specifically, but who's to say that facebook will still be around in 30 years. In fact I'll almost bet that it won't, at least in the same form that it is today. And who's to say that we will be surfing the net on these "klunky" computers that we have now. I bet in 30 years there will be ways to buy computers that can be implanted into your head, forget the device, just surf the net with your eyes.

Ok, enough futuristic technology talk. But I write all this to say, make memories now, whether it be pictures, videos, journals, and whatever else you can think of. Cause when you're 50 years old you are sure as heck gonna enjoy lookin back on these times.