A few months ago, my Dad sold the home I grew up in and,
since I live an ocean away, much of what I had stored there got moved to the
new place with him.
Part of my recent holiday was spent sorting boxes of
keepsakes into keep and toss piles, which was surprisingly more
emotional for me than I thought it would be.
I have always chosen to take part or
to go places rather than to buy things so discovering I was so
sentimental came as quite a shock. I dug
through a mass of books, school assignments, posters, cassette tapes, playbills,
ticket stubs, favourite toys as well as boxes of items made by my grandparents,
given to me by family, and created by my mother. It struck me that all that I
kept reminded me of what made me who I am.
Unfortunately, some of it had been damaged beyond repair. Other items just
seemed too silly to keep.
