Somebody Else's Happiness

Is it not beautiful ?

It is so very beautiful!

They are so beautiful in their happiness

Often I ask myself

What has happened?

That the reminders of the most beautiful moments of somebody else's life

And the memories of somebody else's happiness

Have landed in a junk shop.

I ask myself with a little bit of fear in my heart

Will the decisive moments of my own life

Captured in photographs

Also be thrown away some day?

Because I do not matter so much anymore

To anyone.

But then again, we really are not that important

Looking at it from a larger perspective. 

Photograph of an unknown couple found in a junk shop in East London.

Entitled by me " Somebody Else's Happiness"

Adderley Street In The Olden Days

Here is another nostalgic treat for the ones who have known Cape Town a couple of decades back.

Adderley Street decorated for the Holiday Season, meaning Christmas.

Old Johannesburg

My last treasured find is a series of beautiful old photos of Johannesburg dating back to the 1960's.

Johannesburg Commissioner Street in the 1960's.

Jan Smuts International Airport 1960's.

A busy corner at the intersection of Eloff and Pritchard Street

Commissioner Street in the center of South-Africa's thriving commercial capital in the 1960's

The so called Impala Fountain ( Oppenheimer Memorial)

And a street scene in Hillbrow in the 1960's . It is said to be the most densely populated area in Southern Africa.

The Johannesburg Stock exchange, the financial heart of the city.