At What Moment Did You "Grow Up"...or Have You?

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P.C.

#30
Apr 07 08 07:24
I think I get it....having the home that you grew up in, become no longer available.....removes some sense of security.  I don't think it makes you act different...but it does close the door on one more connection with your childhood.  

  My dad had still remained in our childhood home right up until he died....and it was the weirdest feeling ever to return to where our home should be, only to see a new house there.  Even our address was gone.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

van_guy

#31
Apr 07 08 07:32
 P.C. wrote:
I think I get it....having the home that you grew up in, become no longer available.....removes some sense of security.  I don't think it makes you act different...but it does close the door on one more connection with your childhood.  
 
My dad had still remained in our childhood home right up until he died....and it was the weirdest feeling ever to return to where our home should be, only to see a new house there.  Even our address was gone.

meeeeep - nope it wasn't the home she was brought up in ... that I could understand as well .  Her folks moved in when she was a teen.

Wow - I can relate to that a bit - the home i grew up in from age 3 to 17 was remodelled after my folks moved out.  It was very weird to see it painted etc...
 
 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

P.C.

#32
Apr 07 08 07:40
Well now.  I see your point.  

  The home that stands where 'our' house was, is at least 4 times the size.  Not only that, they totally reshaped the front yard.  What was once a gentle slope from the front door to the city sidewalk, connected by a curving path....is now a small level front yard with a 3 foot concrete retaining wall.  And our house numbers have disappeared off the map.  It's just not right.  
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

van_guy

#33
Apr 07 08 07:43
 P.C. wrote:
Well now.  I see your point.  
 
The home that stands where 'our' house was, is at least 4 times the size.  Not only that, they totally reshaped the front yard.  What was once a gentle slope from the front door to the city sidewalk, connected by a curving path....is now a small level front yard with a 3 foot concrete retaining wall.  And our house numbers have disappeared off the map.  It's just not right.  
DAMN THEM  DAMN THEM TO HELLLLLLLL        
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

Lil Me

#34
Apr 07 08 07:58
How dare they take the address of the map??!
 
 Somewhat offtopic...(I've never admitted this before)...I dialled my grandparents' "old" phone number for years to see who answered.  I was hoping it would be my dead grandfather.  Sounds crazy, but I was a kid.  It made sense at the time.
 
 
 
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

van_guy

#35
Apr 07 08 08:03
 Lil Me wrote:
Somewhat offtopic...(I've never admitted this before)...I dialled my grandparents' "old" phone number for years to see who answered.  I was hoping it would be my dead grandfather.  Sounds crazy, but I was a kid.  It made sense at the time.

That's kinda creepy - what would you have done if he answered????
 
 
 
 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

P.C.

#36
Apr 07 08 08:06
Maybe tell him to cancel his phone number in writing ?
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

purelife

#37
Apr 07 08 03:47
I visited my old neighborhood a few years ago with MrPL to show him where I lived.  I found it to be a great visual stimuli to bring back memories... to see the park, the school, the neighboring homes....

  I haven't been back since and probably don't plan to see it for another couple of years, maybe with my children.

  I also keep track of memories by thinking about the places I have lived.  And with every home that I move into, a part of me grows up, just a bit.    

P.C.

#39
Apr 07 08 05:06
Awww....does have a bit of a melancholy tone, doesn't it Michel.

  There are places I remember
all my life, though some have changed.
Some forever, not for better.
And some have gone, and some remain.

    purelife wrote:  I also keep track of memories by thinking about the places I have lived.  

  That's how I keep track as well purelife.  I've got memories....but they're scattered and disjointed.  By associating things to where I was sometimes helps.  (sometimes not)
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.
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