# When you look back on your life, what is the first image that pops into your mind?
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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 8, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-look-back-on-your-life-what-is-the-first-image-that-pops-into-your-mind/502339 "2009-07-08T16:25:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-look-back-on-your-life-what-is-the-first-image-that-pops-into-your-mind/502339/21 "2009-07-09T21:31:07Z")
Christmas Eve, 1983, sitting in my mom’s car with my brother while she’s driving around in tears trying to figure out where my dad had gone with his girlfriend. I was 4; he was 2.
Cheery, I know.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-look-back-on-your-life-what-is-the-first-image-that-pops-into-your-mind/502339/22 "2009-07-09T22:55:59Z")
Sitting behind the wheel of a racecar. For about a 10 year period, I was the celebrity in the family.
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### Author:  [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-look-back-on-your-life-what-is-the-first-image-that-pops-into-your-mind/502339/23 "2009-07-10T03:06:44Z")
Me with my leg in a cast, at age 2, on a blanket in the yard playing cards (War) with my mother.
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-look-back-on-your-life-what-is-the-first-image-that-pops-into-your-mind/502339/24 "2009-07-10T03:33:57Z")
Riding my horse. I waited 18 years to get my first horse, and the 4 years I had him were the happiest of my life.
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### Author:  [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-look-back-on-your-life-what-is-the-first-image-that-pops-into-your-mind/502339/25 "2009-07-10T13:53:57Z")
Gazing out at the elevated backyard and the brick retaining wall holding in the back patio deck of the Washington, D.C. house I was raised in, sunlight in the air, a 90 year old black walnut tree on my left, and our garage in the distance. I lived there from birth until almost eleven years old and I hope I never forget it.
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-look-back-on-your-life-what-is-the-first-image-that-pops-into-your-mind/502339/26 "2009-07-10T15:59:02Z")
For some reason, I thought of sitting in the classroom in which I attended third grade. Had I read this thread on another day, I might have thought of any of a number of random images (working at Cedar Point amusement park, watching basketball on TV, seeing Old Faithful) from various points in my life.
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