Up towards the top of my favorite things list is pistachio pudding. They didn't have it in Spain, and I missed it. I had some yesterday, and some more today, and it's yummy
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When I was boxing up all my old books the other day, I opened the only memory box I have, which was about half full and all I have from Canada. I found a couple old school assignments and I remembered some things about myself I'd forgotten even existed. I used to have lots of memory boxes and keep everything like you, but I threw a lot of it away and lost some of the other stuff in all the moves.
For me at least, it's really important to keep at least a few of those things, particularly if the setting where your past took place no longer exists. Don't get rid of all your shit, you will regret it later.
The only things I have from before I was 6 years old are some Noddy books, a brown towel, and my vintage Garfield garbage can, which I think beats your vintage doorbell by the way.
Yeah, but I need to organize what I have. And keep the volume of it under control. I don't want to end up being one of these people who go to live in another state but keep a storage unit in the original one, and plan on coming back, but maybe never do and then when they default on the payment, the whole unit gets tossed in the incinerator. I guess that's a Worst Case Scenario. But still, it could happen.
I don't claim to know very well who I am, or who I've been, either. And there's a large chunk of my history that I would really like to remember: the pre-stepsister phase, like 5th grade and earlier. On my own, I tend to retain memories of the traumatic phases more than the non-traumatic... I don't know. I think twenty years from now I'd like to remember some portions of high school, too. I'm one of those people that's afraid that high school was the high point, and that the-rest-of-my-life won't live up to those four years (and that's sad).
Probably has something to do with having lived here since I was born. And with my parents (mother) feeling like she needs to bond with me at every single chance and insert herself into my life. I tend to have better luck with that not happening when I move My Life a good 120 miles away (Spain was very useful for this).
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For me at least, it's really important to keep at least a few of those things, particularly if the setting where your past took place no longer exists. Don't get rid of all your shit, you will regret it later.
The only things I have from before I was 6 years old are some Noddy books, a brown towel, and my vintage Garfield garbage can, which I think beats your vintage doorbell by the way.
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Granted theres a grand total of about 3 years that I would even want to remember. That helps too.
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