Treasured Regrets: What Do You Wish You'd Kept?
You know, one of my biggest regrets is being flippant about keepsakes from my high school and college days. As I’ve gotten older, those memories feel a bit blurry, overshadowed by everything else crowding my brain. I find myself longing to see and touch those sentimental items—like my first cast iron pan, which I had no clue how to clean, or my college ID that I carelessly tossed out the window somewhere along Niagara Falls Boulevard. And let’s not forget my hilariously bad short films that left my film professor scratching his head—gone because I didn’t realize their value at the time. The hard truth is, forgetting always wins, and I can't help but wonder, have you tossed something away that you now wish you had kept? What was it? Let’s chat about it!
Takeaways:
- We often forget the sentimental value of keepsakes from our youth, don't we?
- Looking back, I realize how much I regret throwing away my college mementos.
- Forgetting always wins, and it's a tough truth to accept as we age.
- Have you ever tossed something you later wished you had kept? It happens to all of us.
- I reminisced about my first cast iron pan and how I didn't appreciate it back then.
- Those short films I made in college? They were awful, but they meant something to me.
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Transcript
This is the Daily note from jamesabrown.net One of my many regrets is that I was flippant about keepsakes from high school college in my 20s.
Speaker A:Those times are kind of blurry now as I got older and my brain space is crowded with so much else.
Speaker A:I'd like to see and touch and feel all these things.
Speaker A:Things like my first cast iron pan which I didn't know how to clean, my college ID that I threw out the window somewhere on Niagara Falls Boulevard.
Speaker A:And then there's my oh so bad short films that confounded my film professor.
Speaker A:They're gone because I didn't realize how valuable they were.
Speaker A:And then there's the truth that's as inevitable as my graying hair.
Speaker A:Forgetting always wins.
Speaker A:So what about you?
Speaker A:Have you thrown away something that you wish you would have held onto?
Speaker A:What was it?
Speaker A:Let me know on jamesabrown.net on that note.
Speaker A:I'm James A.
Speaker A:Brown and as always, always be well.
