Memories.
Don’t mind me, I’m still settling. Seriously, why do people move? Granted it is kind of exciting to set up a new place but it just takes so long. Especially when you’re trying not to unpack since you may be moving again after a few months. The apartment thing isn’t seeming too bad right now honestly. Granted, once I am settled and I don’t have a grill and after taking the trash down 3 flights of steps a few more times and the fact there’s no way my truck is getting in my garage anytime soon, everything could change quickly. And tt’s kind of hard getting used to the place being warm all the time. I kept the house so cold to keep the bills down that 75 seems like I should be sitting in boxers on the couch with a cold beer in hand. Sad part is it’s 75 without heat so the summer months could be killer in this place.
So, I’m curious at what point in life you start throwing out your memories. I’m trying to downsize but I have a lot of things that are just little reminders of certain things or people in my life. Some things seem so distant in my past but whatever the item be, it holds the memory of the past that I obviously have been hanging on to. Do you throw these things away ever or just keep them forever? Maybe at some point you just leave them boxed up and tucked away in a corner. Right now, pretty much everything is boxed up and will probably stay that way for some time. I guess at the time I get to finally unpack my life again I can decide what stays and what goes.
I’m not sure if it is possible but I may be suffer from spring fever even though the weather isn’t even that great outside. I seriously have to get all my important work done by lunch because about 30 minutes after lunch (so 2:00) I’ve completely lost my ability to concentrate. Part of it is having other things I want to be doing at home, but then I get home and I don’t want to even do those things. I think my inability to sleep like a normal person may have something to do with it also but who knows.
I hung my first pictures tonight in the apartment. Amy Lee is now sitting over my computer desk. Live pictures from an outside festival that total get me excited for Mayhem Fest this year. Mmmm… mayhem!
Well today is the first day of spring so spring fever is valid. As for your memory stuff..If they are good memories keep them out..if they are bad just stick them in a box.
I’m with Frank on this, memories of good things keep them around, memories of people long gone that only brought heartache or hurt are probably not the things to keep around.
Possessions are just the physical junk we collect to fill our lives with something tangible that generally outlasts the people or places we once were or knew getting rid of it will not erase the memory or change the fact that it happened, only Alzheimer’s can do that. That being said keep the things you cherish the most and sell the rest because there is nothing little old ladies love more on a Saturday afternoon then to pick through someone else’s memories and offer you a quarter; that is when you figure out that what is treasure to you is a potential bargain to most everyone else.