My Parent's Wallpaper

Back five years ago my parents had a lot of frames with photographs all around the house. These photos were from trips, occasions, friends, and our family. In my house there were two walls full of frames with photographs. We have many trips after that, and my parents wanted to continue putting photos on the wall. They gave a lot of colors to the room where we have lunch. When visits come to our house they admire a lot the photos and spent time looking around, and when they found themselves they were happy. My brother and I knew these photographs like the palm of our hands, we knew where was taken each photo and in what part and frame was hanging on the wall. Time passed and we have more photos each year, so with the technology my parents decide to buy an electronic frame. In this frame the photos were passing automatic, but this didn’t work. Of course to us the house seems cleaner and you could update the frame whenever we wanted or have new photos, instead of buying new frames and organizing the photos. When friends or visits came to my house after changing the frames, there were wondering why my parents have done that. Now they could not see themselves in the photos, they had to be very lucky for seeing their photo in just the time they were on my house and the same time their photo passed in the frame. The needed to do something about it; in the room where we most spent time all my family and visits passed by was changed completely. The walls of the room were amazing, colorful and full of memories. They did a collage of all the photos as wallpaper. Now two out of four of the walls are cover with only photos. They are all mixed up of time, events, occasions, people, and trips. Between some photos there are family quotes. Now when people come to our house they see my parent´s creation and besides reading the quotes, they spent more time finding themselves. My family and I have lunch every day in that room, some people had ask us if we don´t get bored or if is it too much, but the answer is no. Is the best thing that could ever happen to that room, now sometimes lunch discussions are because someone stares at a photo and remember a moment and start talking of the trip, person or occasion. 

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