Ohhhhh Jake.. This week’s Sunday Post theme really touched me. I will start by saying I’m not a very sentimental person. At least as far as material things go. I’m very sentimental about close friends and definitely sentimental about my kids and grandkids. Other than that.. not so much.
I can’t begin to say how many things I have lost due to theft, travel damage or just inattention. I think these losses are some of the reasons I don’t hold many things physically or even in a sentimental position in my heart or head. I do believe I posted a picture of one of my most recent total losses in a prior post.
Having said that. I do have few objects that have managed to stand the test of my times.
You can see my diary there. I was given that diary in 1977. I wrote in it for about 5 days straight and like most 10 year olds forgot about more than I remembered it. I have now been writing in this diary about once-eight times a year, depending on the year. Yup, about 36 years. It’s so funny to go back and read some of what I wrote. It appears I spent most of my life as a whining hypochondriac. I read my first few entries to my daughter and she laughed for about 3 days. If you have read any of my past blog entries, you might not believe me. But here is proof.
I know, It’s a little embarrassing but at the same time, so funny.. AND I was only about 10. Still, “knee joints and pains in my neck” at 10??? I think we should be able to look back and laugh at ourselves for some of our ways of thinking and acting.
In the first photo there is a small container of marbles that a friend sent me to go along with an un-usable board game. When I say board game, I mean a real “board” that he fashioned out of a real tree. Unfortunately the board did not make it to me whole but I’ve kept the marbles. The other container once held my very first grown-up watch. It now holds some precious stones that I carry around with me for some reason.
You will lastly note in the first photo a tin container. I’ve carried this container around for about 20 years. It always has some random objects, papers, photos in it. Most of it not important to anyone but me. The photos I have in this container are held in a tiny envelope. They are photos of me as a child and one random photo of my youngest daughter. I love to pull these photos out on occasion and just chuckle at how they used to make me feel and how I feel now as I look at them.
Thanks Jake for that very fun and precious walk down memory lane. Now off to my studies. Enjoy.
What a lovely and personal post, Christine. Yours is the first response I’ve seen to Jake’s post this week. I’m a little slow off the mark as I was busy wandering down Memory Lane myself.
Yeah.. had several but this is the only one I have held on to… I still write in it but only about 1-3 times a year. Good way to reflect. My daughter got me a happiness journal that you write in once every night.. just one sentence.. for FIVE years.. I’ve been consistent so far.. very fun stuff.
I do write what makes me happy… but on the same page there is a statement written and I try to more often make a connection to what the “advice” is on that page. It’s pretty cool.. well thought out gift by my daughter…
Sentimentality is not bad it is the key how we can manage some failure from the past ,then we can start it all over again ,beautiful post my friend thanks for sharing 🙂
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What a lovely and personal post, Christine. Yours is the first response I’ve seen to Jake’s post this week. I’m a little slow off the mark as I was busy wandering down Memory Lane myself.
That’s the thing, once you go there, it is very hard to leave.
Diaries are some of the things I no longer have. I do admit to having a chuckle over them before throwing them away.
Yeah.. had several but this is the only one I have held on to… I still write in it but only about 1-3 times a year. Good way to reflect. My daughter got me a happiness journal that you write in once every night.. just one sentence.. for FIVE years.. I’ve been consistent so far.. very fun stuff.
The happiness journal sounds interesting. Does not take to long to write. Do you record what has made you happy that day?
I do write what makes me happy… but on the same page there is a statement written and I try to more often make a connection to what the “advice” is on that page. It’s pretty cool.. well thought out gift by my daughter…
Sentimentality is not bad it is the key how we can manage some failure from the past ,then we can start it all over again ,beautiful post my friend thanks for sharing 🙂
I agree.. and thanks for stopping by.
I still have my old diaries. 🙂
I love it. What is your oldest diary..