A card collector's mortality- slightly OT

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Posted By: E, Daniel

It's funny, I went through some of the same emotions yesterday but came to them a different route.
I was looking at some 19thC. sporting themed cabinets and cdv's on ebay and took time to really look into the players, or should I say people's - faces. Each looked out toward the camera from a setting probably close to home, and a life evolving at the time to be who know's what and end up who know's where. I mean, what happened even to the rest of that day for them, and did they reflect on the image later with untold stories.......And then I thought, you know, those guys (every one was male) lived so and so many years, maybe had kids, maybe grandkids, but after a certain generation - usually the fourth - your face, your person, your history, your connection to people who had lived around you and knew you, ends. Just like that. I mean, unless one goes on to become renowned and remembered publicly through the ages, then that's what happens. The family stories really only last 3-4 generations, and then peter out.........it's so very strange to be a part of something important in your time, and then just not be even a memory to anyone, ever again......?

So, enjoy the cards and your memories, make loved one's around you happy, it's all you can guarantee.
Although I guess that's why belief and religion are so popular!

Daniel