opening a box

you know how you always want to keep those stuff that hold memories for you? how they always fill up box after box of 'happy things' and 'sad things', and end up taking up a lot of space in your room (if you even have one)?

here's a thought. every once a year, open up those boxes and look at everything. if you pick up an item and it doesn't remind you of anything, doesn't draw from deep within you some precious memory, doesn't induce an inward smile, then it means that that memory has been lost. it also means that you should throw away that object of remembrance.

the object is meaningless to you already.