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Strangers in the Box

(Author Unknown)

Come, look with me inside this drawer,

In this box I've often seen,

At the pictures, black and white,

Faces proud, still and serene.

I wish I knew the people,

These strangers in the box,

Their names and all their memories,

Are lost among my socks.

I wonder what their lives were like,

How did they spend their days?

What about their special times?

I'll never know their ways.

If only someone had taken time,

To tell, who, what, where and when,

These faces of my heritage,

Would come to life again.

Could this become the fate,

Of the pictures we take today?

The faces and the memories,

Someday to be passed away?

Take time to save your stories,

Seize the opportunity when it knocks,

Or someday you and yours,

Could be strangers in the box.

When an elder dies, it is as if an entire library burns down.

African saying

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."

Mark Twain

"Those who take no pride in the accomplishments of remote ancestors are those least likely to do anything that will be viewed with pride by remote descendants."

Thomas Macauley

"Biography gives a man some kind of shape after his death"

Virginia Woolf

"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one"

Thomas Carlyle

"Just how difficult it is  to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."

Rebecca West

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."

Benjamin Franklin

"He is the happiest man who can trace an unbroken connection between the end of his life and the beginning."

 Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"There is properly no history, only biography."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A story forgotten can never be retold