Playing Catch
I had only just started walking and I remember throwing a teddy bear back and forth with my grandmother, who was pretty ill at the time.
I could never catch it because I lacked the hand eye coordination so she would throw it a little short, and I kept throwing short as well because I wasn’t very strong. I had just started practising walking, but couldn’t fully walk yet.
Whenever I would throw the bear way off course, I would get up to try and walk to it but kept stumbling so she would always go and get it for us. Now, my grandmother died when I was about 1 year and a few months old so everyone in my family swore this never happened.
They said even if I somehow remember something from that early of an age, there is no way it happened because by the time I started to walk, my grandma was too ill to walk herself.
Creepy part about all this. I remember my aunt taking a picture of us on our really old film camera while doing we were playing with that bear but could never physically find the photograph. I hadn’t went back to my home country for a few years.
I went back to visit when I was 11 and we were going through old albums and it was there. My aunt swears she never took that picture. Everyone in my family I’ve asked swears they never took it either.
The picture is me and my grandmother sitting across the living room floor, with that same teddy bear, both of us looking at the camera with holding the bear out as if she was about to throw it, but my aunt (or whoever took the photo) caught us by surprise so we both looked at the camera.
It wasn’t on my mind as we were leaving so I didn’t think to take it back, I wish I did. I was maybe one year old in the photo and did not look like I could walk at all so I’m not surprised my grandma didn’t even let me try.
The memory is so clear in my head and to have everyone tell me it didn’t happen is just off-putting.