Oh memories
March 5th, 2010 | filed under: Personal | tags: nostalgia, old, xanga | I’ve been looking through my old xanga site for the past 20ish minutes, and have been feeling a bit nostalgic. Those days were so great. Everything was pure and less complicated.It doesn’t seem like this, just since I’ve had many breaks from blogging, but I started that xanga (link–darkshadowfor, doesn’t work at harding) in the beginning of 2005. Since then I have been quite the photo-taking, web designing nerd. I have been taking lots of pictures, and have been growing in life, slowly but surely. I always laugh at some of the stuff I did back then, how I was even more naive then than I am now, how I said ridiculous things sometimes (quite often, even) without having a clue, and so on. Some things have changed in my life, but a lot has stayed the same.
took this from the archive
This is what one of the walls in my room back home used to look like. I like this picture especially because it indicates how my life has changed so much in terms of relationships. Most of these people I never see or keep in contact with anymore. Life just moved on, and I didn’t take the time to bring them with me.
Nostalgia is some weird stuff. I plan on bringing back some of those old pictures and talking about what I miss about those days on xanga in later entries, but for now, I’ll just leave you with this video. It means a lot to me, but probably won’t mean much to you.
- Abe (my cousin), me, and some others on a roadtrip to the beach. I probably just remember the good–but this to me brings back the purity, the joy, the simplicity, and the newness of life. That was probably one of the first times I heard Stacy’s Mom, and I remember liking it back then… ;-)
~ Jon
P.S. I’m leaving for Indiana tomorrow on a mission trip, so won’t be updating the blog for a week. Don’t freak out too much. :) If you’re looking for something to do–check out this awesome sermon: The Outrageous Love of God, which I’ll probably write about later. It’s great.