Why We Built This
Every family has stories worth telling. We just make it easy to capture them.
I realized recently that I didn't really know my parents. Obviously I'm close with them, but I don't know what they were like as teenagers, or during their careers. I wondered about those silly stories where they got in trouble with their parents—the kind you only hear after sitting at the dinner table for a while.
And my grandfathers? I never really knew them at all. Everything I know about them comes from what my family has told me—fragments, secondhand. I wish I could hear their stories in their own words, but that chance is gone.
It made me think: others should have the opportunity to really get to know their parents and grandparents. Not just as "mom and dad," but as the people they were before that—before it's too late.