"casa bona" > wrote in message
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> On 7/26/2013 11:45 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "casa bona" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> You prejudge them to be fools?
>>
>> I don't really care what happens to my stuff when I die. Of course if
>> Angela or anyone else wants certain things that I have, I would want
>> those
>> things to go to them. But AFAIK, she doesn't and nobody else does
>> either.
>>
>> My mom has been getting rid of her stuff and I asked her if I could have
>> her
>> rocks? Actually a great deal of the rocks were really mine to begin with
>> because I bought or collected and polished them when I was a child. She
>> also bought some or was gifted with them by a friend who also did
>> lapidary.
>> Most of them are in a hammered metal bowl and I asked if I could have
>> that
>> too? She thought for a second and told me that I could have it only if I
>> promised never to get rid of it because it was a wedding gift. And in my
>> mind I was like... So? It wasn't *my* wedding gift and it has no
>> meaning
>> to me other than that it is unbreakable and looks like a good container
>> for
>> holding rocks.
>>
>> I just find it a little odd that people can be so connected to certain
>> possessions.
>>
>>
> It's not the possession per se, it's the memory attached to it.

I have lots of memories. For now I keep them in my brain. I don't want to
get like my parents are though. But I likely will. They seem not to
remember much of anything these days.