Picture from the past

Well, yeah, don't get too exited... I haven't got married yet.

One of my aunts had this picture for a long time. I know when I was young I used to attend weddings and be the little boy who helps holding the bride's dress. I still get blurred flashes of those events and in a way this picture is a vivid representation of a memory that has never been clear in my mind. It's like watching a baby picture of yourself but you have no recollection of that precise moment.

It's funny how you tend to forget a lot from you life. Nevertheless memories have a way to play funny tricks at you. It can be anything... a particular situation, a smell in the air, the color of the sky and the shape of the clouds, the taste of a food or just a word somebody says, and all of a sudden you're carried away, back to a piece of memory, a reminiscence. This tiny piece of memory brushes past your senses and blurs your mind but you just want to hold on to it for just one moment because it caught you by surprise, it triggered your curiosity and you know you won't keep it long enough to fully remember...