What would you do if you lost all your possessions?
It’s not that I’m into possessions, it’s that it would be too upsetting to even think about losing my treasured memories.
Stuff is just stuff, but something that belonged to your mum, photographs that document your life, items that have special meaning for you, just the thought of losing them is unbearable.
Of course you rebuild, but there are some things that you can never get back, and those are the things that matter.
Two of my favourites are my parents’ 21st birthday pictures. I get to see them when they were young, stunning, and just themselves.
I broke the glass in my mum’s picture a few months ago, and took it to a framer for repair. They did it there and then, which was lovely as I would have been cold sleeping outside the shop, and they wouldn’t charge me because it was a pleasure to repair something so precious. So it has another special memory attached.
I have dad’s silver dollar my uncle gave him, and a book he gave me. A box full of memories including a crucifix made from the wings of a Gipsy Moth (aeroplane) in WWI. Apparently the young soldier who carved it died the day after he finished it. I treasure it for him.
None of these things are worth a penny, except the dollar, but they mean so much.
I appreciate everything I have, but things like those above are what matters.
Of course, you all know that. 💖
Best love
Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 