Earlier today my county had a bulk trash day. You could get rid of old computers, electronics, paper you might want to have shredded, stuff like that. I went to the location across from the skeet shooting range. Its kind of disconcerting to hear guns going off as you drive past but you keep driving.
One of the things I got out of my house was an audio receiver I purchased around 1978. It stopped working a few years ago and wasn’t from the era of remote controls for audio gear so, I took it over there. As I put this heavy piece of electronics into my car, I thought about when it was purchased and where I was in my life at the time. It was when I was employed by the Chic Organization Ltd. and working consistently. This piece represented that time period but the unit did not have any emotional attachment for me. I thought about this because I see people on TV shows who can’t part with things they don’t have a use for. Seems like when their departed loved ones purchased it, its an emotional thing sometimes. In most of these cases the loved one purchased something because it was something they liked at the time and it was something they could afford as opposed to an heirloom to be kept in the family for generations. Or land. Which as Ms Shirley Sherrod mentioned in her highly edited speech, some misguided folks are quick to get rid of.
I go back to the idea that material things can trigger memories. But as we evolve is it possible to be happier with less of these things (that at some point will clutter our homes) and more memories and pictures?
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