Episodes Description: In this episode, Kevin talks about the strange feeling I got when I watched my old childhood videos recently.

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Hi and welcome back everyone. So..the other day I had my parents transfer some old home videos from cassette tapes to a digital format. So now I can view them online and on my computer. 

These videos were from when I was around 9 years old to 10 or 11 years old. So, I am almost 39 now…that means around 30 years ago. I can’t believe it has been that long…and that I am this old! Haha..

Okay, so yeah, I wanted to talk about the experience of me watching those videos again after such a long time.  I must say, watching yourself as a kid on a video is a totally different experience than looking at old photos of yourself.  Looking at old photos just tells part of the story…and they say a picture is worth a thousand words…but then a video is thousands of pictures stitched together, so then a video must be worth millions of words. And yeah, the feeling is quite different. A photo is like…oh yeah, that was me, wasn’t I cute.

But then when you watch a video of yourself, you can understand your personality more at that time…and see what has changed… and what hasn’t. And the weird feeling I get watching them is that it is familiar, yet so strange. Maybe that is partly due to me not having a great memory. I am sure that most people can remember their childhood better than I can…at least I assume so…because I can’t really recall that many episodes of my childhood. I only can remember really important events that occurred…like getting stung by bees, or going to Disney World. Or I have other notions of me playing with certain toys that I owned, or going to my friend’s house to play outside in their backyard. Things like that…but the memory is very blurry…very fuzzy.  I can’t recall any one particular event very clearly. Maybe this is most people, though. I don’t know…

Watching the videos also made me think about how short life is…haha. I am not getting melancholic, I promise. But it’s like…man, childhood is over now…and I can’t go back. And then you realize you can’t even go back 10 years ago, when you were just a younger adult, and then you realize how brief this existence is…I wish I could say it made me more appreciative of life and the people in my life, and make me value living in the present more…but I’d be lying if I said it had such an impact on me.  The idea of ‘not taking things for granted’, by the way, is another idea I will talk about in a future episode..

Anyways,…I don’t know…maybe I am rambling. But I wonder If any of you listeners out there have watched videos of yourself as a child recently..If so, please comment and let me know how you felt. It is somewhat inscrutable to me…Despite me saying before that a video is worth a million words, I can’t find that many to describe how I felt.  For now, I’ll just conclude that, once again, it is familiar yet strange.

Okay, that is all for today, thanks as always for listening!!