In the same nook out in the garage where I found all my old concert tickets, I also found a file folder full of, for lack of a better term, “love notes”. I knew I had saved these somewhere, I had just forgot where. Since everybody else went to bed early Saturday night, I decided to give these old cards and notes the same treatment the concert tickets got — scan, and toss.<\/p>\n

As I began scanning all those notes in I couldn’t help but to read some of them. It’s safe to say, my high school love life was pretty pathetic. Every relationship I was involved in was off balance, with either me liking the other person more than she liked me, or vice versa. Come to think of it, I guess a lot of relationships that don’t work out could be described that way.<\/p>\n

Most of the things I hang on to give me happy memories when I pull them out from time to time and look at them … but almost none of these letters did. Mostly I was reminded of how things went wrong, of times I had hurt others, or others had hurt me. I thought about the relationships I had let go on too long and the ones that never had a chance. The author of every note I read either deserves an apology from me or owes me one.<\/p>\n

The further I worked my way through the stack of keepsakes, the more depressed I got. Only a fourth of the way through, I decided to take a break. I walked out to the kitchen to fix myself a drink and saw Susan had fallen asleep on the couch sitting up with her laptop sitting running on her lap. Mason was asleep on the other couch, his blanket in the floor. I went and checked on Morgan who was asleep in her bed. While in Morgan’s room I picked up a random stuffed animal (Mike from Monsters, Inc) and, back in the living room, placed him on Susan’s laptop so she would laugh when she woke up and saw it. I picked Mason’s blanket up and draped it over him. <\/p>\n

I then went back to my computer room, picked the entire pile of memories up and dumped them in the trash. For someone who throws very little away, this was surprisingly easy. Some things are just better left behind. <\/p>\n

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