Yesterday

You could say that it has been a busy month.  There's much happening at work and with the family but I managed to get back to the memoirs again.  It's the memoirs I am writing for the next generations.  I am trying to trace stories from the previous generations and put them into words so that the next generations will be able to find some sense of where they've been.

It's a long tedious process but I believe it's well worth the effort.  The end result will probably not be an Alex Haley; but at least I hope to leave behind something for the future generation to hold on to and to remember.

Somewhere in the family memories, in the days of black and white photographs, is a photo of a water trough.  Not too sure if anyone still remembers it.  The photo itself is long gone, only a virtual copy exists.

And so it will likely be the same for the children of the next generation.  The physical artefacts, the actual items will be gone - disposed, thrown away but what we can still leave behind for them are the virtual memories which collectively can paint a picture for them to glimpse into the past.

They will not understand our past, just as we have not understood the past of our forebears.  They will not feel the joys, the pains, the emotions that we have felt just as we have not been able to feel the emotions of our parents, our grandparents and those before us.

But at the least, we have given our children and the generations that follow, a little window through which they can glimpse into the past.  And how much will the history of their family benefit them?  Only the future knows.