What was your purpose ?

I love saving notepads and journals that I really like so they are never full and unusable. I don't know why I do it. As a kid I saved my favourite pencils and scented erasers. I guess I'm a hoarder but I will call myself a preserver.

I had a lovely recycled paper diary with a tie around cover which I was saving forever until one day I found myself filling it up with rants about moving to London, our new couch not fitting in our apartment here and how I loved our house in Chestnut Hill, Boston so much more. When my writing frenzy finally broke in the middle of a sentence I realized I had used up my pretty diary and stopped writing immediately. The story remains unfinished and the diary half full.

Another notepad I was saving was my graduate college notepad which I got on our first day at school. I guess I was saving that as a memory of leaving India, moving to the US.

Today I found myself filling it in with information about nurseries for Dot! Who knew this is what it would be used for 4 years back! I am thoroughly amused at watching my preserved possessions achieve their purpose in life eventually. I think I will save this notepad for Dot to see what a caring mom I am to use up my precious notepad for him :)