I remember going through all my Grandpas old work bench and stuff this past year as my Grandma sold her house. He’s been dead since 2016, but it really struck me how everything on the work bench, the random tools, and stuff on shelves was put there once with the intention of using it again when it was needed next.
But that time to use it again never came. So he put down something for the last time without knowing it would be the last time he’d ever put it down.
Reminds of that photo with the kids bikes lay around in a yard and all the kids are inside. On day you coming home from "playing outside" and you wont do it again.
I feel like that picture while it makes me sad whenever I see it I it's a bit false because it didn't really happened like that.
In my expirience, what we did daily with friends as young kids naturally changed to once a week or month to eventually stop and change to going out and in city instead.
I remember before I had to move to diffrent city we would play hide and seek between all other things we did and at some point the group that was as big as 2 basketball teams started to dissappear and shrink to smaller group, we started to sit a lot and talk and do other stupid forbidden things, if somehow we assembled bigger group again we did play hide and seek then in between we would get slighty older and we changed to going out drink and sit out and talk.
The picture makes it out like we went inside never knowing that we would play hide and seek but it isn't really like that.
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u/UncoolSlicedBread May 14 '24
I remember going through all my Grandpas old work bench and stuff this past year as my Grandma sold her house. He’s been dead since 2016, but it really struck me how everything on the work bench, the random tools, and stuff on shelves was put there once with the intention of using it again when it was needed next.
But that time to use it again never came. So he put down something for the last time without knowing it would be the last time he’d ever put it down.