Hey b10ggers,
Today I am going to write about a car that had a big impact on my childhood, which is a 1940's hot rod.
Above are some pictures of this car. It was built by my Grampy, I am not sure what years. It had brown seats with smell of fabric and oil mixed together. It had a old analog clock in it, a standard stick, and a casette player, with a tape on it with songs from the 1940's through 60's. My favoirtes inclube the original "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Book of Love", and "Poetry in Motion". My Grampy spent years working on this car, and gave it to my family in around 2012. We gave it to my cousins who live 30 minutes away from us because we did not use it enough.
My best memories in this car come from the years 2007-2018. My Grampy used to get up very early every morning. Around 3-4 times a year, he would visit my state of Massachusetts from his place of residence in Sotuh Carolina. We would leave the house at 6AM when he would visit and he would bring me to Friendly's. He would buy me ice cream for breakfast! We would talk about anything, and sometimes on these trips my other cousin who was five years older than me would come. We would pick her up in the morning, or she would sleep over the night before. I remember licking sticky ice cream panckes off my fingers, and then visiting my Dad at work. I would spend all day at his office, coloring or playing in the trucks that felt so big at the time. If we did not go to Friendly's, we went to Chick-fil-A. In all of these memories, the hot rod is a part. My parent's drove to their wedding in this car, I went to Father-daughter dances in this car, family events, movies, church, soccer games, parties, so many fond memories in this car. So many childhood memories have this car as a factor, and I am so grateful for it.
My Grampy passed away on October 6th, 2019. This was a big blow to my family. He was such a positive impact on all of us. This car reminds me of my best memories with him.
Although I do not see it often anymore, I cannot wait to attend my prom in this car, or take my future kids to events in it. I cannot wait to play the cassette tape on the way to breakfast, and tell them about how I grew up with this car.
Having relics from previous memories is so cool. Like, you can think, the memory only exists in my head now, but this object went through it with me and this object now is the only relic I have to remind me of what happened. The Friendly's is closed, my Grampy has passed, but that hot rod still has all the memories in it. Life goes on, and we cannot change the past, we can only remincise on our fond memories.
I am so thankful for all the memories I have in that car, and I am so thankful to be able to look foward to the future.
I grew up climbing trees.
Always trying to balance on the scary braches. Climbing the tree that the boys said girls can't to because girls don't play football and have tiny arms.
I hopped the fence of the ditch and walked on the top of it from post to post. The neighborhood kids thought I was going to fall and die. All I knew was that everyone was watching, and I was doing something risky.
That one specific tree in the yard of the yellow house was my favorite.
"You aren't a Timari cul de sac kid, you cannot climb that" is what they told me.
Left arm. Right arm. Swing left leg. Swing right leg. Pull.
It was never about getting the highest. It was about being stable.
Like now.
I keep my life stable. I get afraid of climbing to new heights physically, but mentally I am always getting higher.
When I was a kid, I was known to have crazy ideas.
Today, I am known to have crazy ideas.
How much do we change as a child? What personality traits change, which ones stay the same? How can we be so mature for our age, but still throw a toddler tantrum when not getitng what we want?
We all still have some childhood innocence. Mine? The one of climbing the tree even though the boys said I couldn't. Getting run away from, but making a new game and making everyone come over to me instead and play my game.
We were told to stay away from the ditch, because of ticks. I went the farthest into the ditch. All the way to Paquette farm where the farmers picked corn and had tractors.
The neighborhood kids told everyone I had ticks and said they were going to tell my mom.
I laughed. They feared me because I pushed the boundaries. I did what I was told not to do.
Stop following the rules.
Stabilize yourself.
Go for what makes you confident.
Make your own mistakes.
Everyone has flaws aside from their strengths.
I have some strengths, like I can remember a lot of things and I am very outgoing, not afraid to speak to new people.
But I am also flawed.
One of my biggest flaws is that I have a hard time with authority. I do not like being told what to do, whether it be by my parents, friends, family members, strangers, anyone. I like to make my own decisions and mistakes.
This leads to be making more mistakes than an average person, like when I dyed my neck purple with hair dye because I did not listen to the box, and then used acetone to remove the color, resulting in chemical burns.
Or when I put a piece of paper over a candle to make a cool "lamp" even though my friends told me that was a bad idea, and it caught fire and my house almost went up in flames.
Flaws affect us just as much as our strengths. Sometimes perfectionists may not want to realize their flaws, and people with little self-esteem focus on their flaws too much. One thing is for sure, flaws help us grow as a person just as much as our strengths.
I am a big talker. I love to talk, sometimes I am obnoxious. I do not listen. I am perceived as rude. Not listening to other people is one of my flaws. And when people tell me to listen more and stop running my mouth, I end up not listening because I hate being told what to do. And then I hyper-focus.
While it is easy to focus on flaws and what people do wrong, by changing mindset it is also easy to focus in strengths.
I am a big talker, leading me to be able to make friends easy and learn more about people. I am caring, I am considerate, and I am bold. Our strengths sometimes do not overpower everyone's flaws, but it is so important to remember that while a person may seem so perfect, they do have flaws. While a person may seem so messed up, they do have strengths.
One of my favorite bible verses is Genesis 3:19, "for you are dust, and to dust you shall return." I interpret this verse as meaning that nobody is better than anyone else, and everyone is born and dies an equal person. Some are remembered more than others, but everyone is born on the same earth and everyone dies on the same earth. (well, unless you die in space. then I guess everyone dies in the same atmosphere.)
We have flaws, and we have strengths. Always remember you are valid, and nobody is perfect, even if they may seem it.
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I look back on what I love to do and writing is something that has always been consistent. When I had to begin a blog for my eighth grade class project, I thought I would get a good grade on it and never have to touch it again. Years into the future, I have realized that blogging is something I have a passion for. Through some stories, some memoirs, some poems, and some essays, take a look at the interests I have and the writings I have made.
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