A Question

[melayneseahawk]

So, I'm trying to organize my room, which is unpleasant because I've got to unpack the stuff from the apartment, and I was in the process of packing my room at the parents', and I never finished. I'm running into stuff that I hung onto for no reason I can figure, and I'm trying to decide what to keep and what to throw out.

I've been told that things like old yearbooks and the handful of journals I started and then abandoned are things I should be keeping. What about old school papers? I've got what amounts to four milk crates of old school papers, mostly from high school. Should I be keeping any of it? I thought, at one point, that hanging onto the subjects I might use again (English, history, theatre, etc.) might be useful, but then I actually looked at the stuff and I'm not so sure. Even my (in)famous history notes based on Mr. Hines' lectures don't make much sense viewed four years later.

Really, I'm just procrastinating. But I'm curious what things people kept from their childhoods, and what they threw away.

Comments

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

For me, it's more along the lines of a) it's something that would potentially still be useful to someone, and b) an offshoot of the Jewish idea of Tikkun Olam, something I picked up at my Jewish Zionist Socialist sleepaway camp. Basically, the concept compares the world to a jar that has a crack in it, and that the goodness in the world is slowly leaking out and being lost. To replace said goodness, people do things to help others. I guess it's the Jewish equivalent of karma, sort of? Anyway, the way I see it is: I have stuff I don't necessarily need anymore, it's still stuff with usefulness in it, I can give that stuff to people who need that stuff, and the world becomes a slightly brighter place.