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Which treasured photo would you jump back into for 1 precious hour if you could?

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CityCommuter · 16/07/2021 22:56

I have 2 photos that I wish I could jump into and spend 1 hour again in that exact time...
First one is when I was around 2 in the late 70's. It was a family picture with my Mum, Dad, siblings, Aunt, Uncle, cousins, Grandad and our 2 dogs. It was a beautiful summers day and we all looked so happy pictured outside the house. An American relative who came to visit took the photo and its crystal clear. I'd love to go back to that day just to be with them and talk for 1 hour as Dad has left this world now along with Grandad who is long gone...

The second one isn't so long ago, just over 10 years when all my children were small with the youngest still being a baby. They were pictured on the sofa after just having a bath and looked so cute... I'd love to pick them up and breath them in and cuddle them just the way they were when they were happy with simple things like being with us and didn't have distractions like Instagram, Snapchat etc...

Time just goes so quickly, I sometime think that I didn't appreciate the early years with my children like I should have and exist more in the moment rather than always being stressed out about things that weren't important!

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anotherwinkywinkybumbum · 16/07/2021 23:00

My 21st birthday small family party. My uncle had died about 6 months before and in this picture my nan is laughing so hard at my mum dancing like a loon. My mum is dancing to some 70s music, think it was the Nolan sisters and her hair and legs are going all over the place. First time I had seen my nan smile so hard since losing her son/my uncle. That was about 17 years ago. Favourite photo ever.

tunnocksreturns2019 · 16/07/2021 23:03

Too hard to choose. Literally any with my late DH in before he was diagnosed with cancer so before we were 33

GoWalkabout · 16/07/2021 23:17

A nice sunny day I took my two girls aged 2&3 for a Teddy bears picnic by the river. I loved those days off with them.

Deadringer · 16/07/2021 23:24

I have a pic from about 5 years ago with my brother, he died two years ago and i would love to go back and spend that day with him again.

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CityCommuter · 16/07/2021 23:26

@anotherwinkywinkybumbum and @tunnocksreturns2019 I'm so sorry for your losses xx

Aww the teddy bear picnics - so sweet, lovely memory @GoWalkabout

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AlanThePig · 16/07/2021 23:27

I have a candid photo of my Dad and I, deep in conversation on my wedding day. I wish I remembered what we were talking about, I wish I’d appreciated how fleeting these moments were at the time.
I do miss him.

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CityCommuter · 16/07/2021 23:34

@Deadringer and @AlanThePig ((hugs)) to you both Thanksxx

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MaMelon · 16/07/2021 23:41

When I had just had DC3 and DH bought DC1&2 to visit their new baby brother in hospital with my mum. It was such a lovely, special moment - so much joy and excitement. Probably the happiest moment of my life actually. My lovely mum died 9 years ago and there isn’t a day goes by that I don’t think of her and miss her. I’d love to be able to relive that hour with the 6 of round that hospital bed.

ASpoolofBlueThread · 16/07/2021 23:43

More upbeat from me.

We normally go away February half term. In 2020 we decided to save some money and stay with my mum and dad in the West Country instead.

We did a day trip to Bath, my nearest city as a kid. I spent most of the day thinking this isn't a proper holiday, whilst trying to make the most of it. I look at those photos now and wish I could go back and tell myself that this is the best holiday I'd have for - at least - two years!!! (I also slightly wish we'd gone to Gran Canaria instead Grin)

noblegreenk · 16/07/2021 23:54

A picture taken when I was about 3yrs old which I vaguely remember being taken. It's of me, my mum, nan, great auntie, auntie and cousin in a car park 😂 We used to go to a nearby town, 1-2 times a month, on a Saturday afternoon. We'd have a mooch around the shops and go to a cafe that did the best hot chocolate with whipped cream. For some reason, on this particular day, we all gathered for a photo in the car park, next to my great auntie's red Austin metro. Those Saturday afternoons are some of my happiest memories and I felt so safe and loved within that matriarchal family group. My mum, nan and great auntie are no longer with us anymore and I'd give anything to see them again, even briefly.

AlexaShutUp · 17/07/2021 00:01

There is a picture of me with dd on holiday in Switzerland on her third birthday. She looks so unbelievably cute and adorable, and she was so incredibly excited and happy on that day, I would love to go back and just re-live that time once more. Just to give her a big squidgy cuddle.

I'll just have to give her a big hug now instead, which is fine because she's still very cuddly as a teenager. But I do look back on that time with such fondness.

I'd love to go back to the very early days too, when she was around 3 months.

Or maybe back to my gap year overseas when I was 18...wistful!

BackforGood · 17/07/2021 00:07

My wedding day photo with dh and my "house family" (parents and siblings). Rather like the Lionel Ritchie song 'Dance with my father' - I'd love to spend time with all of those on that photo who are no longer with us.

SirenSays · 17/07/2021 00:09

I have a gorgeous candid photo of me sitting on my grandmothers knee at my parents anniversary party. My grandmother looked so happy. I miss her everyday. I was all dressed up, my sister had straightened my hair for me, it was one of the few times as a child that I didn't feel like an ugly duckling.

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 17/07/2021 00:14

I don't think I could handle jumping back to loved ones who've died. I'd grieve all over again. I'd like to jump into old family photos that are mysteries that I'd love to understand.

MaMelon · 17/07/2021 00:19

I don't think I could handle jumping back to loved ones who've died. I'd grieve all over again

I took it that I wouldn’t have any knowledge of what was ahead when jumping back in, iykwim?

HopingForOurRainbowBaby · 17/07/2021 00:37

There's probably far too many to choose from, but one photo I would jump into if I could would be the last photo I took of my Bump. I miscarried a few weeks after taking it and even if going back I knew what was going to happen. I would enjoy those moments instead of spending the time I did constantly worrying all the time

TSSDNCOP · 17/07/2021 00:39

There is a phot where 14 year old me is shinning out of a sash window of my grammar school. We were banned on death given they were 100 years old and the ropes regularly gave like guillotines.I'm wearing a dangerously short skirt and a shit eating grin.

Bortles · 17/07/2021 00:50

First love and me in our early 20s, in the full height of summer in the countryside, they're black and white which makes all the flowers in the lane look amazing. I'm wearing one of those white peasant dresses, he's in a checked shirt with scruffy hair - they look like photos from Depression era America. They're agonisingly romantic, pre-cynical me.

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 17/07/2021 00:51

Fair point MaMelon In which case I'm struggling to choose.

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CityCommuter · 17/07/2021 01:31

It's lovely to read people's stories though I know some are bittersweet Thanks Bless you @HopingForOurRainbowBaby I went through the same experience so I'm sending positive thoughts your way for your rainbow baby xx

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VienneseWhirligig · 17/07/2021 01:38

Same as@tunnocksreturns2019, any with my late DH. Although oddly, one of my favourite photos of him is from 6 weeks before he died, we were on holiday in Germany and having a snowball fight in the Alps. He looked quite well - when he had chemo he looked really sick, but this was 6 months after the chemo and although you could tell he had cancer, he had regained the thickness of his hair and put a bit of weight on. He looked so happy and alive, standing on top of a mountain with a snowball in his hand. I'd go back there in a heartbeat. But any photo of him brings happy memories.

VictoriaLudorum · 17/07/2021 07:18

The photo that is the wallpaper on my laptop.
Sunrise on a beach in southern Sri Lanka with waves crashing on the shore.

Sparechange · 17/07/2021 07:21

The pic of me seconds after DS had been put in my arms after he was born

I have never felt more deeply in love, happy, content

happinessischocolate · 17/07/2021 07:29

A picture taken the day my birth father came and met my parents. We went out for lunch and they all got on so well.

Both my dads have now passed away and my mum has dementia.

Gameofbones · 17/07/2021 08:57

Am I allowed to go back to my first wedding and drag myself away?

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