Brain Fitness #6

As my partner does not have that level of cognitive understanding that it would take to discuss such a topic, we were not able to get to it. However, looking through his photographs, I definitely got a feel for cultural memory, as it included photos of S serving in the National Guard during his youth, and another of him and his wife standing in front of an old station wagon during the 60's. It brought me back to a time that I felt was so rigid, in terms of one's life path. Making a living, getting married, and starting a family young was considered the one path to follow in these days (at least this is how it seemed to me, upon looking through these images and relating them to other historic photos I've seen from these days as well. I immediately compared that to life nowadays, and felt like we have so much opportunity to pursue our own unique path how we want to. However, it's possible that my interpretation of their life is not how they see it; whenever I spoke with him about these times, he said "it's been a wonderful life," and he wouldn't change a minute of it. So, even if that's actually how it was, to an observer looking in, it will never truly add up to be the same.