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Artist: The Shins Song: Young Pilgrims [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" Prompt: Look at a picture from your younger years. You don’t have to share the photo with us, but try to describe it in as much detail as possible. What led up to the photo being taken and what happened after? I wasn't sure how to answer this prompt because I don't have any photographs from my youth. But then I realized it just said "younger years" which could technically be, like, last year. It was a younger year, yeah? I have a photograph from my wedding day. The photo is me with my grandfather on one side and my grandmother on the other. We're all dressed really nice, which if you know us, is different than normal because all three of us usually wore t-shirts and jeans all the time. My grandmother is wearing a kind of olive green business suit with black accents. My grandfather is even wearing a tie. Before the start of the ceremony, the photographer had my family members come back to the private dressing area and take photos with me. All of the pictures are special to me, but this one especially so. I was the only grandchild whose wedding my grandmother was able to attend. I got married very young and my grandmother passed away a couple years later. Since then, both of my brothers have gotten married and they obviously weren't able to share their wedding with her, so I feel fortunate that I was able to have her there. My grandmother was an amazing, kind, and gentle person. I don't know what I would have done without her and my grandfather as a kid, but I'm guessing I would have turned out much worse. The photos from my wedding are also important to me because I don't really remember that day. My anxiety beforehand was so severe that I got really messed up. I didn't have cold feet. It was just the whole ceremony part of it and having both families together in one place that caused me to panic a bit. It's bittersweet now to see these photos. On one hand, I'm happy to have them. On the other hand, it's a little sad that I couldn't be 'present' for such a big event in my life. But, to focus on the positive, at least I got to share that experience with my grandmother. I fell into a winter slide And ended up the kind of kid who goes down chutes too narrow |