I was chatting to a friend of mine on facebook and we both approached the subject of moving home. She mentioned that the majority of her belongings, like mine, are clothes. This got em thinking, do we keep possessions in life as a reminder and discard them when we discard people or are they treasures to keep forever? Does an item we own become so attached to a person that may have left our lives that when they go it goes too?
I look around as I type this and see treasures that I have collected from Africa, Australia, Thailand, Scotland, Sweden, China etc.
But in all the traveling I have done, in all the places I have been I could store all my items in a warehouse and still need space for more, so where have they all gone?
Between 2001-2008 I moved house seven times and did downsize each time, it also did not help that my ex girlfriend was a shopaholic and would always buy me clothes I never needed. When we broke up I went through a phase, as I always do, of destroying anything associated to her, out went the photo’s the birthday cards (ok I did draw the line at the PSP and 32″ LCD TV!). So I think in future I may just have to be a little less hasty when thinking of destroying possessions. I have always been a light traveler and can fit all my life in a van.
But I now know in haste that I can never replace those posessions that I have discarded along the way.
