Reminders

Things tend to remind us of the past...

At a friend's place recently, and his kitchen utensils were similar to the utensils used by my late grandmother - the metal plates used for serving, the use of newsletter on the coffee table and eating in front of the TV - brought back memories of the past.

Walking to work on an overcast day and seeing tourists walking around reminded me of being a tourist in Rome where I was walking about early in the morning on an overcast day trying to find an old cathedral which housed one of Caravaggio's paintings.

Seeing a graduate at work making silly mistakes reminded me what I used to be like when I first started, making stupid mistakes and silly typos in documents.

We tend to feel a closer connection to things or people that remind us of past events or people.