Happy Monday,
So I just had my first official uni day of 2007, which consisted of an Interactive media lecture and seminar. The Lecture in the morning had been relocated from last terms Poole house slot, into the Lee's lecture theatre. I had not had a lecture in this room since back in my first year! 4 years ago!!! Back in the autumn of 2003, BAIM, BAM, BAAMC and BAPR, would all trek there on a Thursday evening and listen to Stewart rambling on about Levis, and Campaigns and other advertising treats, when all we were contemplating was what to do before heading to The opera House! It was really strange. It sounds so cliché, but the room actually seemed so much smaller than I had remembered. It felt like the room had doubled in size since the first time I had stepped in there for my introductory lecture where we met the SU president and all of our lecturers for the year!
And then this afternoon in the seminar, after discussing ideas and criteria for the assignment. We got to talking about day dreaming, andfantasizingg and nostalgia. How everybody does it, but few admit what thier fantasies consist of. And if more people were to open up, would realise that most people lust after the same ideas! It did not take long for eBay to arise in conversation and 2 girls both confessing to having browsed for 'CareBears' in the past. Then there was debate about how people associate such items from years gone by, that take them back to that time. Items can take people back to a certain memory. And what could have been a happier time.
I have to say, Im not a very CareBear girl, but I do admit to having browsed around the Polly Pocket section of eBay, where I was happy to discover a number a goods, some of which I recognised from my childhood collection! And when I saw them (including the pictured clock) it really did make me smile. It brought back memories of playing with these figures and fantasising about ficticious scenarios in which thecharacterss were involved! Oh to live in the top of amantelpiecee clock, with a ladder up the side, and aswingingg butterfly chair!
I have always been a very sentimental type. Never to throw anything away. And to keep boxes of little memories of trips, or events, or gifts, or just a birthday card. I never thought of these keepsafes as items that would allow me to fantacise about a time where I was happier. But to never let me forget these memories that do make me happy. Perhaps I am preparing myself for a time where I can use these items forstimulationn to make myself happy.
Thinking about it, when I have reached for my box of memories in the past, it has been at a time where I need to make myself feel better, or remind myself that people care. So it is helping me get away from my current state of mind, and transform it to a happier place. And I love that I can do that. If my house were to burn down; that memory box, and my boxes of photographs, would be the most devastatingg items to lose. As there is absolutely nothing that would be able to reincarnate them and I would feel like my memories had been taken away. Its strange but its true, but the most insignificant items to one person could be the most valuable possessionss to another.