Bringing The Past To The Present

You must travel light

We mix up yesterday and today sometimes. Our memories of events that happened and things we owned blur together to make a seamless view of how life is.

Sometimes.

And sometimes they don’t blend at all, and we find ourselves reminiscing over the possessions we used to have. Those things that made our days complete, that we couldn’t do without. Those items, which out of all the stuff we had, meant the most to us.

The things which, if we had them now, we would be thrilled to share with a child.

It’s not that everything we had back in the day is worth transporting to the present except through memory. But some certainly were.

Write a story telling us which of your possessions you had as a child you would want to have now so that you could give that to a child. Maybe you still have that teddy bear your uncle gave you for your 8th birthday.

Maybe you would like to pass along that first car, the one you could only start by rolling it backward down the driveway of your first apartment.

Maybe it’s that first color television, your original GI Joe doll (action figure), your Etch-A-Sketch, My Little Pony, or the set of china your mother only brought out for holidays.

Perhaps your favorite thing from the past is a photo of you coming down the chute at Splash Mountain. Or it might be the first speeding ticket you received, the one where you had to go to traffic school and met your spouse.

Whatever it is that you would want to pass on to a child today, choose that.

Please tell us what it is, why it was important, and why you would consider that vital enough to your life that you would want to pass it on today.

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