"I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back here--is just the same."
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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Do you ever sit back and look at your life as it currently is, and think to yourself, how am I a wife - a mother - a woman in her adult years, when it seems like only yesterday I was an awkward teenager with my whole life ahead of me?
Sometimes a certain song will come on, or an image or a sound will bring me back, and those same feelings I had will be renewed. When I'm with my best friend, I often think that if I were to look in the mirror, I'd see my fifteen-year-old face in my reflection.
My parents are always telling me that they feel younger inside, that they still feel like the same person they were in their twenties, and I've rolled my eyes thinking, ya right, like they even remember what that was like. But now that I'm a mom, I'm seeing life from the other side of the fence.
What about you? Do you still feel your inner youth shining out through your grown up eyes? What brings you back?
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Sometimes I still feel like that 19-year-old who moved to Vancouver from Toronto go to to UBC. And other times I feel like an old lady! :)
ReplyDeleteSo loved Anne of Green Gables. Watched it so many times. Sometimes I stare into the backseat when taking the kids somewhere and cannot believe I am a mother of two. It feels like just yesterday I was in my 20's partying like a rock star. How did I get so damned lucky?
ReplyDeleteAnne of Green Gables...sigh. I remember reading the books, later seeing the movies on PBS. I have been looking forward to my daughter being able to read them.
ReplyDeleteSome memories will send me back in time, like no time at all has passed. Most often I feel it when I'm with my Four Musketeers since we've been friends for well over twenty years now.
Thanks for sending me down memory lane for a bit with Anne Shirley. Such a delightful place to visit. :>
I was sent over to your blog by Stasha (North West Mommy)... glad I came :)
ReplyDeletesometimes I look back with longing, sometimes it's bittersweet, but thankfully, most days, I just feel happy and blessed to be exactly where I am supposed to be right now.
ReplyDeletebut when I want to roll back the clock for a spell....music always does it. that Duran Duran song you and all your girlfriends used to lip synch around the pool all summer long...the university pre-party anthem Freedom '90...or even just a church hymn from my youth: they can all transport me back in an instant.
of course, dancing is optional, but highly recommended.
(be back soon when I narrow down one of my 28 Pinterest quotes - LOL)
I think about this a lot. When I get together with my friends; the ones I was closest to as a child and we talk and laugh about the things we did as kids 10, 12, 14 years old and we get to laughing. I have to tell you it takes me back -us back. We get transported and feel as if no time as passed at all, and feel like kids again.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great quote!
I have never thought about it. Guess I just feel like myself, here, today. But I don't feel like a young girl anymore.
ReplyDeleteI just thought of this the other day...my friend had her birthday and she said to me we are getting old... but I don't feel old...sometimes I still feel like a teenager, only I'm not. Love that quote.
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