My Family reflection
Over the break I had for christmas and the new-years season, I travelled back to my hometown of Anchorage Alaska. While I was there I photographed my family, and my friends, and saw what life had given them since I had left for college. Time has gone by enough that I assumed my friends were going to have completed goals or pursue some of their dreams, but I do not have the right to say that any of them have made any actual progress towards making their lives better. My best friends seemed like they were in limbo, not where they were, and not yet rock bottom, but just floating through time and space, just slowly degrading, and waiting to pick what to do with themselves. It seems like without any kind of guidance or anyone helping decide for the, some people just cannot complete life on their own, they cannot make any real choices on their own or say what is good or bad for them on their own. As happy as I was to see my friends, it was too much to stay very long, and I left a few days early just to get out. I noticed how much I changed while I had been gone, and how little everyone else had.
Although I cannot give very much praise to my friends, my close family being together was a great thing, as my brother lives in southern California as an engineer, and my grandmother lives in southern florida where she does old people things. My family was extremely happy to see me, noticed how much I had grown, saw my new talents, and was very interested in everything I had to say. Although they were so intent on getting every last detail about my life, I had my own thoughts about their lives, and what they had ben doing since last time we had been together. I quickly found out that my mother and father were in the exact place they had left off when I left. Their relationship seemed a little bit improved, but when I walked into the house I noticed that everything looked the same, I was greeted the same, and we ate the same food as before.
As the holidays rolled on, I noticed a lot more cheer than the christmases before, and I felt like there was much more spirit associated with the actual coming together of christmas, which was a new thing for me to experience. As the days wen on though, it seemed like my family was back to their normal lives, when the excitement of me being there left then it was time to move back into the empty-nest life. And it was peaceful.
