One of my designer friends (whom I’ll call “Lame-y,” which is what I call her anyway) was working on a thesis project and asked a bunch of friends to do a quick survey.
The survey asked for three things (not living objects) that I have an emotional attachment to despite their imperfections.
I sat there in my room looking around for things that I might have an emotional attachment to, but I quickly realized how I don’t really have emotional attachment to a lot of my stuff, which felt both great and disappointing. My approach to this, actually, was to pretend that there’s a fire and I can only take three things with me, no matter how heavy or long they would take. What would I really miss if I didn’t take with me? And here’s what I came up with:
- My photos, both printed and digital.
- The universe.
- All the journals that I have created throughout my life.
I know the universe isn’t a thing that I can take with me, but my mind started to wander a bit at that point. I love astronomy and the mystical properties of the universe that we don’t yet understand; it’s awesome. And I literally can’t live without it.
I look at this list, I look at my realization about not having much emotional attachment to most of my stuff, and I wonder, does this make me boring? Or is this a good thing? On the one hand, what does that say about my emotional capacity? But on the other, at least none of the three things are electronics (except that they hold the data for some of those three things).
What are your three things?
Flush.
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Three things, it’s difficult yet so easy.
My three things would be
1. My “Orgasm” painting. It’s my favorite and one of my best. Seen here http://halcyon-jedi.deviantart.com/art/Orgasm-1-18514210
2. My St. Christopher medal. It was given to me by someone dear to me and despite it being cheap the meaning behind it is priceless.
3. Probably another piece of jewelry that my grandmother gave me after seeing me play with it year in and year out as a child. Afterall you can find costume jewelry of that quality anymore.
This survey brings into play some interesting ideas about attachment. I discovered that rather than having no emotional attachment to items I had an across the board even level of emotional attachment. My mind went first to what items I would need to survive such as shoes. However, my Reef flip flops are hardly unique and survival items was not the point of this exercise.
Thanks for sharing!