My Grandparents-Sarah and Delmus Larrimore, This picture was taken Easter 2009.
We have all seen it....that old guy with the Hollister shirt on, that woman with the (dare I say it) THONG showing through her white pants, the grandpa spinning his wheels through the Wal-Mart parking lot, and even the 70 year old playmate wannabe. Gosh, what is this phenomenon about? I will tell you what! IDENTITY CRISIS people! I no longer call it the mid-life crisis as many people refer to it as. I mean after all this is happening to people at every age. Everywhere I turn I see it and it is hysterical.
Why is this happening? Who started such a trend? We've got Grandma's at the bar, mother's geting plastic surgery as a hobby and fathers who want to be like Charlie Sheen. What happened to the days of Mayberry and Andy Griffith? The good ole' days are gone.
As a child, I had what seemed to be a picture perfect family complete with a mom, dad, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all of it. As I got older, I learned that picture perfect is a joke and nothing lasts forever in the exact same way it started. Here's a few examples; my mom use to wear those shorts with the 5" inseam to cover her legs, my Grandma habitually wore a housecoat and bedroom shoes, and my Grandpa could always be found in a khaki pair of Dickies and brogans. These were expectations for me...visions of who these people were to me. Who would have thought that 10 years later these very same people who have changed so much. (well not my Grandpa, he never changed a bit) As I peaked as an adult, my mom and dad divorced, my mother traded her long shorts for daisy dukes and highlights and after my Grandpa's death, my Grandma started going to a dancing barn and wearing makeup and jewelry! Although they are the same people, they have changed their identities just like the rest of the world.
People no longer grow old, they grow young and they live on the memories they once made along with a new, self evolved identity. A reinvention of themself....sometimes it's a missed opportunity that resurfaces and sometimes it's a complete makeover but either way, it happens. I have decided to freeze my "perfect memories" so that my family members are the same as I always imagined. When I flashback, I guess I will have to be 13 for the rest of my life but hey, thats working for me. :)
Forever Young....Forever Young....We all wanna be forever young!
This is my mother :) She's a fox or shall I say Cougar?
My Grandmother and I
My Grandparents and I- 2008
Another picture of my mother, obviously after her identity change! :)
This is my Grandmother in 2012 sporting her Covergirl pose
