Saving Junk

Sunday, 4 September 2011 by Marcus Aquinas.

For some odd reason I had to go digging through a drawer that is not one of my usual stash sites. In the process I discovered tons of old receipts, business cards, lapel pins, string, shoelaces and the other assorted detritus that we manage to unintentionally collect. At the time, hanging onto it seemed like a good idea, but after the space of more than a decade in some cases, they just didn’t seem so important anymore. R.I.P. in the local landfill.

This set me to thinking about how we often do the same thing to ourselves. Little bits and pieces of daily life that we treasure or nurse but, when viewed through the lens of time, seem trivial and petty. Perhaps we should make a point of occasionally rummaging through all of those little mental drawers in which we stash such things and send them to our own mental landfills.

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