Creating a time machine for our children...

@Suggar (3606)
Bulgaria
December 18, 2010 5:47am CST
Hello guys, this topic came from another discussion i posted. I decided one day, when i have kids, to create a time machine for them. It will be with pictures and keeping their child stuff until they grow up. For now, i'm making pictures at everything, which looks like it won't be so long on the marker. I want to be able one day to show them how we lived these days and what we were able to see and buy. I think it would be amazing. For myself, i know that if my mom saved the stuff i collected as a child, i would be very very happy to look at them now - albums with pictures and posters from snacks, smelling lists it was very modern when i was little girl, because i was born before the democracy come in my country so during the communism the life were so poor of choices. I mean everything in the shops were in limited numbers, you couldn't buy so easy some new and interesting stuff. People had money, but there were no goods for buying. Even i decided soon to start something as album and little dairy for my life. To write stuff and to keep them for long time. May be it will be interesting, when my kids grow up and has their own family to read how their mother lives, when she was young.
7 responses
• India
18 Dec 10
Sugga, your thinking is so appreciable. I also sometimes ask to my parents, "why have not they created a story of their life?" We all are so interested to something more about our ancestral living style and how the present life is different from that. unfortunately I have no childhood's photographs of myself. But I will not let my next generation to suffer this.
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@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
18 Dec 10
Hello friend, i got child pictures too, of myself but now it seems like not enough for me. My parents made me so much pictures i got different scenes, but sometimes i was forget about what was i interested in as a child. This is what i miss the most. Thanks for sharing.
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• India
18 Dec 10
Suggar, you are so lucky to have those pals in the photographs. Why are you not try to analyze those, to find out your childhood's interests? Sometimes our interests are captured in the snapshots. In what ways, in which places, what was in your hand at that time etc. are the key points to find out your interests. May not be accurate, but definitely will give some clues. sometimes, my parents saying that I was liking to do some thing crazy...when I was child. But it is badness that i have nothing to recall those thinks.
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@mayrah (1144)
• United States
18 Dec 10
Suggar, that's a great idea, for sure you kids will learn to value what they will have in life. Unfortunately I am too lazy to make that kind of stuff but If I were one of your kids I'll be thankful if you do that for me. It's like living in movie where you can review or rewind what had already happened, it would be a great thing I guess specially for people who sentimental. I never realized how to live in communist country until I read you discussion. Personally I dream not live i a democratic country because unfairness always exist.
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@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
18 Dec 10
Actually, if we have to talk about politic life, i would say that communism is not so bad. The health system was better in Bulgaria in that years, there were laws and people knew that if you break the law, you will have serious problem, so you need to follow the good habits and to give something to the society. Now we live in democracy, but everywhere everything is corrupted, so nobody cares about the people. All around us, there are crimes. I prefer to have less in my home, but to live calm, without worries that someone will rob me, or without worries that something bad can happen with the people i love. In the past people here had only few brands of cars, they were able to buy, now it's different, many brands, many models and a lot of people every month who die in car accidents. Whole the world thinks that communism is something bad, but for our society it didn't work so bad. Yes, everything was limited, but people were so happy when they could buy something. Now we got everything in our stores, but people got little salary, so they can't afford that "everything" and this is making the life here more material, people are trying to reach the rich classes and they loose the spirit of the life. For the album, everyone can do it, for sure. I'm bit lazy too, don't worry, but the reason is good, so i surely will start it some day.
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@zapatee (477)
• Philippines
18 Dec 10
great idea you got there, suggar! pictures, diaries/journals, and other stuff that you can keep for your future children will surely re-create in their eyes and heart the life that you live now. simple yet meaningful mementos can be really inpsiring and close the gap between generations of people in families. i'm a bit sentimental and i like keeping mementos too like old love letters of my parents, old family pictures, record albums. one thing that i wish i could work on, but having very difficulty, though, is re-tracing my family tree from my grandparents side and other relatives outside of my immediate ones, lol. that will really need a lot of work, but i hope one day i can work on it. you can try it too.
@zapatee (477)
• Philippines
21 Dec 10
it's true about how families and relatives were in the past compared to the modern times. they were closer and had larger families. new ways, a smaller global community, and new lifestyles have contributed a lot to this decline in the new generations. some old family traditions of staying closer and keeping in touch especially during special occasions, however, are still in practice, and this is good for making and keeping memories--photos, mementos, etc. good luck with your time machine again and the family tree. thanks for the best response too!
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
19 Dec 10
Thanks for the idea friend, actually in the past, people here had a lot of children. I mean about the generation before my grand mother and grand father. Nowadays people just don't know their aunts and uncles so good, as example for me. My grand mother she had one cousin, which comes to my parents house every year, i never know who is she, never recognize her when i see her. It's bit different these days, people move really much because of some reasons and when kids grow up... they just don't share so much moments together. So the family tree is something, which i'll paint really hard, for sure. For the other stuff, i plan to start them soon. Thanks again.
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@buggles64 (2709)
• United States
18 Dec 10
This is a wonderful idea. I am sure you will have just as much collecting these items for your children as much as the children will enjoy cherishing them when they are older.
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@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
18 Dec 10
Thanks for supporting me friend.
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@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
21 Dec 10
We're too lazy to creat a time machine for the kids as they are growing up. So, we just resort to creating albums. And even with this alternative, we chose the easy way. We don't print out the pictures anymore, we just get the soft copies of the pictures and arrange them on a online album-making website. At the end of the year we just order the book. This makes it very easy and all of the books of the same size. Goodluck with your time machine.
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
22 Dec 10
You are right Bounce, since everything can be done very fast online, whole the charm of doing something is going away.
@nicregi (1934)
• Malaysia
18 Dec 10
Hi there. Creating a time machine is great. In fact, not only our child can go back time, we can go back with them to the dinosaur age or even those stone age and see how things work out. Even with those extinct creatures, we can go back and learn and study them. Pictures are always great but, to have something to see and feel personally, is much better!
@Xansus (946)
• Bulgaria
18 Dec 10
Well you cant actually build a machine so you must be satisfied with pictures :P
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
18 Dec 10
That's true, i think that nobody can build a real time machine, it was more metaphor The most important here for me is that i got my own experience, which usually doesn't interest the others, but my own kids would be interested to know how i lived before they were born, so that's the point of view, which i'm trying to build right here
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• China
19 Dec 10
Yeah,It is a wonderful idea.Your family will be happy to share the machine.
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
19 Dec 10
Thank you.