Attachments To Material Possessions?

As good as it gets? Maybe.

I was trying to think what I'd grab in the event of a fire - not much really, stuff like official documents which are a hassle to get replaced, a few books, some photos, odds and ends.
Most of my stuff could be replaced.

 

My paints, brushes, pens, canvasses.....
I guess if I look around this house with a thorough eye, I can find other things I would miss.....

 

For you maybe. I was talking about myself

I'm not sure but I like it here a lot so if it gets better not much. Oblivion sounds not too bad either, except if it is for eternity it might get boring

 

I put my photos in the cloud not to lose them. I also collect my old passports, but I have pictures of all the pages, in case of loss.

Everything else, material things, I can buy again, if lost. I'm even not attached to our house. In case of divorce, my husband could keep it and everything inside.

I'm fond of my music instruments, but they can be easily replaced.

 

I know what is mine and what isn't....

 

I have this god awful red and yellow silver speckled double flying V shaped bass guitar from when i was a teen I still cant bring myself to throwout

 

Obviously, you should keep that!

 

I have too much stuff here weighing me down from being foot loose and fancy free, as I wish I could be some times.....
People here moving miles away with just the clothes on their back basically on a bike...I envy people who are not weighted down some times......as I drown here in stuff....LOL

 

I suppose I could always just turn this place into storage...and be foot loose, if I really wanted to....
but who would take care of all of the animals around here as well as I do?
Stan is pretty good at it.....He has gotten better with it.....He carries Champy alot to save on Champy's exercise so he does not collapse any more.....inside/outside....upstairs/downstairs....etc,.....Champy has his own personal nurse maid here....which is fine with me, as Champy is a little too heavy for me to carry him comfortably......

 

I'm not materialistic but I do have many things that I'm attached to for sentimental reasons. Almost none of those things were originally mine. I have many things that belonged to my mother, grandparents, great grandparents. I have a trunk in my living room that belonged to my great great great grandmother purchased in 1909. I have no idea and highly doubt any of these objects have any monetary value but they are things I chose to keep because I find beauty in them and enjoy having them around to look at and enjoy. Most of the things are more about the memories. Pictures are a huge thing for me too. When you've lost as many people as I have in your life you realize that memories are all you have left of those people and sometimes its nice to have a physical object to look at to help jog those memories.

 

attached to my turntables and music collection...hopefully one day i can have a room in a house filled with all my cds/tapes/vinyl recordings...

 

Easy come--easy go. Except for kids stuff and family history--none of it means much. We're just passing through anyway.

 

The Post, the Post, I'm attached to that, but I didn't pay for that ; I did and do pay for the lap -top and printer however. Not very sensible, the economy.

 

I was thinking of the Jack Nicholson movie 'as good as it gets. Not his best I think.

I like it here too. At the same time I am aware, sometimes painfully aware, of the fragility of this biological lifeform..

Oblivion couldn't get boring as one would be oblivious............but I feel that some form of continued existence may be a possibility. Probably nothing like the ideas that are held by human beings about any such thing.

 

Where are you going? Neptune?

 

i enjoy things, certain kinds of things, things i can create with, and by playing with them. i don't feel like i have to prove anything. but you know, seeing all the images of how the world could be, the ones i make and the ones i collect from around the net, that sort of what i get up for. to be able to make images too. and playing with trains on the computer. all those sorts of things are things i love. but its not like anything i can't just dream with nothing, because i've been there too, is like what i live for either.

i don't even want things that are only good for impressing anyone. i think that's a complete wasteful nonsense. i only want things i can enjoy using. and then the things i have to have to stay out of trouble, because people do get into trouble if they try to go around naked in public. so i guess i have to wear something, and sometimes i wish i didn't have to eat. although i enjoy very much the taste of good food.

so technologies i can create with, i feel more secure having them and having a place where i can have them. and its not like i don't have an ego or emotions or trying to pretend i don't, but those are things i don't trust. i mean i see them get people into trouble all the time and screw up the world we all have to live in. with their egos i mean. but being able to make things 'just how' i like to think they should be, that is the process my happiness mostly comes from.

lots of things i've had at different times i've just walked away from because needing or wanting badly a change of scene was more important then the limitation of how much i could carry or in any way take with me.

i've got most of the things now i need to have at the same time to do most of the things i want to do with them. i wish that were possible when i was a lot younger.

one thing i don't have is a little piece of land somewhere to play with, or someplace where i wouldn't have to own it to do so.
well very few of us have everything we want so that's not really a major thing.

i would love to have been able to build strange maze-like buildings and of course little trains just big enough for people to ride on.

well different things at different times in different places.

 

In one had, I didn't work for and purchase my items to leave them. All have a purpose and I use t good majority a lot.

But if I had to grab some things and go, It would be the items from my grandfather and his funeral etc and a picture of his dealership from a plane, Everyone else in the family's got ruined by water, Mold, Lost and a fire. Its something I have, They don't and ill never let it out of my sight/possession with out a fight. The other is a couple firearms, One being an old school 1880-1900 era double barrel shotgun.

Family first if they are involved, But either way try for it all lol.

 

^ I am sorry for your losses due to fire and mold...both terrible things to deal with.......

 

Lots of things have sentimental value.

I'm not so big on possessions as status symbols though.

 

I'm a dragon.