I realized today, as I
was going through my camera bag looking for my necklace, that I keep really
random things in my bags. Not a lot of them, because I can’t stand having a
bunch of stuff I have to dig through. If a bag gets too full, it drives me
buggy, and I have to dump it out and get rid of half of the stuff in it. But
usually, there will be at least 1 thing that, no matter how pointless it is, I
will leave it there.
At the moment, it is a
ticket from Arthur Christmas that I saw July 18th of last year.
Kinda weird…I guess when we were at the movie, I just stuck the ticket in my
bag, and never took it out. And it will probably be some time before I take it
out. Things like that aren’t always just junk. Oh, frequently they are, and
when I have junk in my bags, I chuck it out. But it’s funny, because this
ticket is like a photo for me. I take it out, and I remember the circumstances
around going to see a Christmas movie in July. I remember fun time spent with
my cousins. We were trying to get as much time together as possible before I
left the country, so I spent the night at their house, then took them home with
me to spend a couple of days with me, then went back to their house and went to
the county fair to see their 4-H projects. On the 18th, it was so
beastly hot that we almost melted going to the park to go out on the
paddleboats. We needed some sort of respite from the heat, and sitting in an
air-conditioned theatre was perfect. Especially watching a Christmas movie. I
think I was far more amused by the movie than the boys were, but they enjoyed
it too.
I seldom even remember
that the ticket is in my bag. It’s in a little side pocket that I don’t use
much. But if I have to get something out of it, sometimes the ticket falls out,
and it reminds me of a really good time. And usually, that’s what the random
things in my bag are. Reminders of times that I want brought to mind once in a
while. Because, though it’s not good to live in the past, there’s nothing wrong
with remembering the good parts, and remembering the people that you care
about.
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