Photographs. Real and digital. I just recently went through my external HDDs and a dusty old TuffBox from 2006 and found like a squillion photographs I didn't think I still had. Army buddies, exgirlfriends, my truck, childhood antics, old apartments, etc. Some of people and places I don't remember. It's tough to toss 'em. Those faces are so far in the rear view yet the lessons learned from interacting with them remain important. I think I hold onto photographs because they help me remember. Without them, I worry that I'm going to wake up some day and have no past between my ears.
That idea really scares me.
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In the end I'll just round file 'em like everything else. For 2010... my new philosophy has been "whatever you can carry."
Last edited by Plan9; 04-12-2010 at 10:39 AM..
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