Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are

I needed an extra holder for some cupcakes I was making so I asked my mom if she had something I could use. I specifically asked her for a Tupperware pie carrier I remember her using when we were growing up. She used it for several different storage purposes, I'm sure, but I mainly remember her putting a pie plate in it, so it's a pie carrier to me.

I was surprised when I got it from her because it was a lot smaller than I'd remembered. I even wondered if she had two different sizes of this and gave me the smaller one instead of the larger one. Then I realized that no, this is the only one she had, I just remembered it being bigger than it actually was. I was thinking of it with my child-mind memory instead of my adult-mind memory. Kind of like the saying on rear view mirrors, "objects may appear closer than they are." I need to keep this in mind that when remember things from childhood, they might often seem much bigger and grander sometimes than as an adult.

Another example of this is an anniversary party I went to for a dear friend that I used to teach Sunday school with when I was in high school. The party was held at the church I grew up in and where we taught Sunday school. I hadn't been to that church for quite a few years and wanted to walk around and see how it had changed. It really hadn't changed much at all, but I was so surprised when walking down the hallway because everything seemed so small to me and not big like I remembered it. I was thinking of it with my child-mind memory instead of my adult-mind memory.