When you are you, in grade school, middle school, high school .... you are usually - at some point - assigned the assignment of interviewing someone in your family that is older and ask them about their lives. Usually you might be given a list of questions as suggestions or questions to definitely ask them specifically....
........... and no one wants to do it at that time in their life. It's like kicking stones...
............................. do I have to?
Funny enough - I have been very interested in tracing my family's history since I was a teenager but I was never comfortable asking questions.
I am painfully shy and utterly riddled with severe social anxiety ...
I don't know why I never asked. And of course, in this day.... sitting at my desk, writing this, I wish I had. I wish I had asked all those stupid and annoying questions.
I wish I asked her how her and my grandfather had met ... I wish I had just asked more...
............ so much more....
The only thing I can do, is encourage my children to ask the questions. Maybe this is why I am so open and honest with my life and the record of. I want them to know.
