Throwing Away Memories
December 14, 2009 by Puna
Filed under Signatures
My family was in for a short visit this weekend which forced me to finally clean my guest room so my brother didn’t have to sleep on the floor. In the room, in a box, on the floor were some old trophies from the girl’s glory days of soccer. She was a five year old soccer sensation. And she was so little and so cute.
I wish I could keep every single moment and perserve every single moment of their lives. But it’s not practical is it? I knew that I couldn’t keep these in a box forever and I don’t have a place to display them, so I have to let them go. It was very hard.
I did keep the photos and I have this photo to remember now, forever preserved in digital zeroes and ones on a server somewhere – forever.
Now…what to do with all those ribbons?
Posted on Gayle’s Monday Memories.
oh, I know that had to be hard!
That must have been very hard to do. It’s good that you took of photo of them for memories!
You’re right–you can’t keep everything. But, I hated to get rid of some of those things, too!
What a great idea – to keep a photo of them! I am bad about getting rid of things. I can’t let go. I am proud of you for doing what needed to be done and finding a creative way to compromise!
I am guilty of keeping it all and eventually you run out of space. Moving my Mom from the farm into nursing care woke me up. 50+ years of bits and pieces of everything she deemed important. The memories are in your heart forever, you don’t need the trophy!
I have the photo’s of when they recieved the trophy’s and the memories but I give the ribbons and trophies to the boys. If they ever want to part with them, its totally on them…
I would have kept the trophies — but that’s because I’m a pack rat.
I threw away all my old trophies when I finished college. I wish I’d at least taken a picture. Now I have nothing to prove to my kids that I was actually good at something once!