Do you have your life in pictures???
By GreatMartin
@GreatMartin (23672)
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
March 28, 2016 10:44am CST
Except for the first 3 years of my life--and I know there were some taken but where they are I haven't the faintest idea---and from the ages of 13 (when I had my Bar Mitzvah picture taken) to 17 (picture in my high school year book) are the only periods in my life where I don't have a photograph picture of my life--fat, thin, young old(er), with beard and mustache, just beard, just mustache, clean shaven, an Afro (in the 70s when they were the 'in' style and wearing a Dashiki) I have the picture.
Some of them are hysterical (Did I really look like that? Did I really think that outfit was 'cool'?), some bring back powerful memories and others bad ones. I have pictures where I look pregnant from being so fat and other ones where I thought I was God's gift to men AND women!
I have 2 photograph albums of solo shots, 4 with each dedicated to a lover, one huge album devoted to my 10th Leap Year Birthday party (which is a good thing because I was smashed during the whole thing!) with articles and pictures written about the party and the 300 guests I had, 2 albums of me with various friends and one of the friends without me in the picture.
Okay, I admit it--I have a "Martin Wall"--pictures of me either solo or with friends (who was it who talked about narcissism the other day?) in my living room--will take a picture of it and put on another discussion.
Some will have you rolling on the floor while others will be before and after--not only fat but when I had so much hair it had to be cut constantly and the after now when I don't even have to comb it and the light shines off my forehead!
Oh, did I mention my scrapbooks when I was a STAR for 10 years?? (Okay, so I was a big fish in a small pond but I have a record of it!)
Alright, enough about me--what do YOU think of me? LOL!
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@funkeyguhl (1743)
• Philippines
1 Jun 16
Great photos! I tried asking my mom for my baby pictures and other pictures that were Pre-Facebook and unfortunately, she said that it was all gone.
We had a water leak in our home and this ruined the photos.
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@funkeyguhl (1743)
• Philippines
4 Jun 16
@GreatMartin Do you recall some of them? Like where they were taken or something?
@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
5 Jun 16
@funkeyguhl I recognize a few backgrounds plus I can guess about how old I was and where I lived.
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@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
29 Mar 16
Been there, done that! :O)
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@ghostie2472 (252)
• Cebu, Philippines
28 Mar 16
I didn't have much photo of me or my family when I was young. I think we had few photos but only very few has remained, most got faded because either it got wet or stored the wrong way.
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@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
28 Mar 16
I've got a lot of pictures but in an album, not the wall.
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@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
28 Mar 16
I have them in albums--recently started to scan and put them on Internet--on the walls, tables, etc.
Why have pictures if you aren't going to look at them?!?!
@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
28 Mar 16
I always look the good--the camera sometimes doesn't capture that!
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@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
28 Mar 16
I am really surprised about all the old pictures I have!!! Remember when this was in style?
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Mar 16
I have some pictures of me at different stages of my life. What do I think of you? I think, like most of us, you have gone through some changes. I just posted a discussion with a picture of me about thirty years ago. A lot has changed.
@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
30 Mar 16
My outside might have changed but I am still the great, warm, caring, happy male inside!
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