Hops through Time.

I am very fortunate in having an app on my iPad called Timehop.  Every morning it takes me back up to nine years...by searching Twitter and Facebook for things I’ve written in the past. Old photographs are there too. On some mornings I see my husband smiling at me and  I read old blogs and details of cruises taken long ago  every day.   

Some mornings I weep...seeing the pictures of my children full of health and laughing together still hurt. ...but it’s all good...I am glad to see the evidence that I did once have loved ones close by. But if the tears fall it doesn’t prevent me from punching the button which takes me back.  The details of past cruises are always amazing...Did I really do all that?  The photographs say that I did!   The political ones are also interesting, reminding me that we have had plenty of warning about the territory we are now living through...

I enjoy going back in time each morning...it’s not always comfortable though...sometimes I groan when I see things that I’ve written about situations existing in the world...it’s not that my views have changed...but some of the ideas are not how I would react now! Occasionally I read something which gives me pleasure as it reminds me of old friends as well as loved ones...and what I did during cruises all around the world is always amazing! 

The timehop app is not always comfortable...sometimes I wince at what I’ve written and the reminders of the weeks when one of my loved ones died are painful but still necessary to get the whole picture...  occasionally I want to get rid of it but the benefits are worth it even if it makes me cry.   Even now in old age life is never dull....and here is the proof that it never was!