E-bay sells memories. The E-bay buyer of my memory probably was going to resell it. Perhaps the future buyer was doing the opposite; buying a memory.
The strange thing is these memories are not bought and sold. It’s only the symbol of the memory. I still have the small memory of my grade school lunchbox back in a corner of my brain. I just don’t have the rusty lunchbox in the corner of my basement.
Music generates many memories for me. Happy, sad, or just pleasant impressions of past events play along in my head with many songs.
I’ve got the routine put another post in the blog
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You’d never know it
but buddy I’m kinda poet
and I got a lot of things to say
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and thanks for the cheer
I hope you didn’t mind
my bending your ear
20 comments:
I hear you loud and clear. When something is going horribly wrong and the radio is playing, the first thing I do is turn off the music box. Man, on top of everything else, I don't want a crap memory barnacle-billing itself to a perfectly good tune.
Thanks for sharing. I don't think ahead as good as you. The music would keep playing for me. I wasn't even thinking about preventing future associations. "crap memory barnacle" that's a phrase worth remembering.
Very true about memories being in the mind, but it's still hard to give away a tangible item linked to that memory.
It was not to hard to sell the lunchbox but there are many items in the category of priceless. Depends on the memory and the item. thanks
18 moves over the course of my married life have sort of separated me from things. the memories have to do because i've lost/misplaced/given away so many things in the name of efficiency and then there's the cost of moving stuff...we still seem to accumulate stuff all the time that always seem so necessary! wow, that was a ramble, wasn't it, sugar? xoxox
Not really considering it was 18 moves. thanks
I had a Batman lunchbox. Can't remember the details of it though.
Some joker probably made you forget.
thanks
I had an old metal lunch box - Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, as I recall But I loved on a submarine base when I was in elementary school, so I'd have liked the one in the photo.
Interesting but since you wrote elementary school, I assume that was a typo in your comment. I recall liking the TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea so that probably why I liked the lunch box. thanks
Ahh, music really are memory disc's, aren't they? I find certain scents and smells also often snap me back to a certain time or person, too.
thanks for coming over from across the pond - much easier than sailing or flying. Yes scents are a big memory related sense. Wishing you the best of memories.
Eloquent, beautiful post.
But it made me miss my Bionic Woman lunch box. ;)
By the waym this wa Dawn@LightenUp! I didn't post my name right. Doh.
Every song I hear is like a time machine. So weird!
thanks for adding a little more info. You should put your blog link in your DISQUS profile so comment readers can just click over to your blog. Given the increase of replacement parts most of us will be bionic by 70.
It's not weird. Music and memories go together most of time. thanks
I love that box. I have never sold anything before on eBay. I like the idea that while you sold a memory, someone else bought one.
:-)
Traci
thanks - Do you think I could sell a tag line to e-bay? Something like - Keep your memories alive - sell them to some else. I'm glad you liked the idea.
I think you have a winner! I'd hire you as an ad man.
:-)
Traci
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