As we travel through life on our individual paths, we collect millions of images in our mind; photos taken with each blink of an eye and pictures drawn from our feelings and thoughts. These images are an ever growing collection of memories that will last a life time, some make us laugh and some make us cry and some are images of lost and forgotten people and items in our lives. These don't physically exist, yet they live in our minds, our secret scrapbook of the best bits that no one else knows, a growing box of memories, of souvenirs, that will live in our minds forever.
They say possessions are meaningless, and maybe this is true. As the most important memories, objects, items, pictures, faces and people live in us, deep in the depths of our souls. Sometimes you can remember certain images, maybe the most poignant and significant to you, but others seems to pop up almost sporadically and out of nowhere. To me, especially memories from childhood, appear when I smell certain smells that transport me back to a certain time in my life. Like pine cones and the smell of pine trees; as this transports me back to numerous camping holidays spent with family as a child. I shut my eyes and I can smell the pine trees, feel the plastic groundsheet under my feet, smell the gas cooker and feel the warm air of France and Spain.
I hope your own secret box of memories, your box of souvenirs, keeps you as happy and smiling as mine does to me, as apart from true friendships, its one of the only thing that will stay in your life. You can access it at any time, and smile, feel and replay your own life. Try it, it might make you smile :-)
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