Tuckerus Maximus Dorkus (faustian_slip) wrote, @ 2003-07-21 00:40:00

Current mood:

nostalgic

crinkly fold
I’m in a blissful state at present. A gentle breeze is swirling through my room, coming in the northeast window, reminding all the dusty corners that they still exist, and then continuing out my door and down the second-floor hallway. In my absence through the years things have been shifted and reorganized in this room. But my collection of trinkets and the memories attached to them are all still here. Old, hand-me-down Playboy magazines are still preserved under my mattress, although the thought of the feathered hair and style of Hef’s 1982 Bunnies keeps me from revisiting the contents. The “Tower of Time” poster given me by my sixth grade science teacher is still taped on my wall, and the Marvel universe remains neatly stacked on a shelf. My first pocket knife still smells like fish guts and opens with the sound of the sandy grit it acquired through years of boyish misuse. Back then cutting the ground seemed like a useful pastime. The instructions from the uncle who gave me the knife: “it’s not for chopping, so don’t chop”, left digging as an attractive option.

I’m in a memorable chair, wearing memorable clothes, drinking sharp, bold coffee through a memorable mug. The bright whiteness of this ibook LCD screen is an excellent contrast to the dark walls and slightly yellow glow from my old and favorite brushed steel desk lamp. The sky is wispy with a hint of gloom, and the area outside and around the house is silent except for occasional cheeping from trees and shhhh-ing from the rainy breeze. The fact that my mug is still mostly full and steaming leaves practically nothing to be desired. I wonder how long this will last.

In my case... schiz_o 2003-07-22 13:50 (link)

One of the things about having moved around so many times is that, I can only hold onto things and try to remember what it was like to acquire them at the first time. Most of those things are usually books. Which sparked a lot of complains from my bro that "You should throw out those crap!" That is precisely why I wish that I have a permanant home that I can at least store things in, given now I don't really remember what my first home looked like. (Reply to this) (Thread)

Re: In my case... faustian_slip 2003-07-22 20:13 (link)

I hold on to books too. I’m not a very fast reader and it typically takes me a couple of weeks to finish a book, sometimes longer. So, whenever I finish one, I feel somewhat proud. I have three book shelf units in my room, each with 3 levels holding around 20 books per level. They’re organized by subject. I can remember how I acquired just about all of them, but the books which I’ve read have a bit of a glow. Books and trinkets are both memorabilia. The only difference is that I save certain trinkets because of both how they look and sometimes the story surrounding their acquisition, but I save books because of the story within them, and that always ends up containing a little bit of the story of how they ended up on my shelf. The contents of a good book end up blending with the content of my life. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)