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It can be tough to remember the way we were when most of us are older and heavier versions of our former selves Date published: 10/2/2009 By Cathy Dyson THE PASSING of time and its different effects on people is a curious thing. Most of us get a little thicker in the waist and thinner in the hairline as the years pass. We see our children grow up before our eyes and have youngsters of their own. But when we run into an old classmate or co-worker, we're shocked by the same changes time has wrought We can't believe they're all grown up because the last time we saw them, they were rowdy toddlers, tossing food on the floor. I had all kinds of revelations about time this week. In 1989, I was working for The Fauquier Citizen in Warrenton. I had lived in the village of Catlett for years and had moved, a few months earlier, to another village a little farther down the tracks. I lived in an apartment above a general store that was perilously close to the railroad tracks. Many times, after I covered the devastation from the Catlett wreck, I wondered what would happen Anyway, this week I went back in time and noticed that it definitely treats people differently. The volunteer firefighters who were skinny kids, right out of high school and with their whole lives ahead of them when I interviewed them two decades ago, weren't exactly skinny They were middle-aged men in their late 30s and early 40s with pot bellies. A couple had gray hair. All of them had families of their own, and several had done the marriage thing more than once. Most had the same answer when asked how they were and what they're doing. All they do is work, they said. A few who had lost jobs because of the economy were looking that much harder to find more work.
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