Special Moments

You know those really special memories, once in a life time opportunities, things that you keep from events you will never be able to recreate.

The things that others look at you with a raised eyebrow, like you are slightly mad, wondering why you have kept THAT! But that one piece means the world to you, it makes you smile, it makes you laugh, you feel all warm inside, it may even make you cry. But it doesn’t matter because that is the piece that reminds you of that event. That is the last piece you have of that event, you are never going to get another piece, it has happened it has gone. It is the remaining piece of a long distance memory!

It doesn’t have to be an amazing item, it could be a ticket stump, a photo, something so strange that only you understand, but it is your special thing that is all that counts!

When that item is broken or lost forever, a little part of you is crushed inside! You can’t bring that back, it is the only thing you have from that time and it is now it is gone.

This happened to me yesterday. I keep lots of things, people would probably say a lot of it is tatty and rubbish, but to me they mean the world. I am a scrapbooker obviously I keep everything that evokes a strong memory I have stones, of beaches we have been to, I have Tito’s first collar all of Baba’s clothes and special items that he has loved since he has been born. All of it is special to me, but somethings can not be recreated. I can’t get another tatty little collar that was worn to its last moment of life by Tito, yes I could buy another collar but it just would not be the same, see there would be no memory associated with that collar. Do you get where I am coming from?

It was a silly things to others, but an end of an era to me, something that I will never get back again and I was distraught. I am still am if I am honest. I think about it and I just want to cry. I know no one else gets it, but to me I feel like I have totally had a bit of me crushed never to be replaced. It was a really important object to me and it is now gone, I am sad, and hurt that someone so close to me broke and lost it.