It might be easier if you think in terms of hearing instead of seeing. If someone is far away from you, you can shout and it might take a second for the sound to reach them. So at this moment, they are hearing what you said one second ago.

Light is the same way, but it travels a lot faster. So if someone is very far from Earth, they will see the light that left Earth some time ago. If they are 32 light years away, they will see light that was on Earth 32 years ago in 1990.

It's important to note that even with the most powerful telescopes we could make right now, the image would be so blurry that you couldn't see the shape of the continents.