Are you a sentimental type of person?
By ktmatunog
@ktmatunog (912)
Philippines
September 29, 2010 8:08am CST
Do you keep things high of personal sentimental value? Do you think that things will last? Are you afraid to let go of things that you don't need anymore?
If you are... If you could pass on some important material thing to your granddaughter, what would it be?
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@mariacecilia13 (490)
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
I did and I still do! Actually I am the source of high school and elementary pictures of my friends and classmates, they were so surprise when I uploaded them on facebook. To think that those pictures were actually as old as 19 years!I just feel bad because I couldn't find my kindergarten I.D. :( but aside from that I was able to keep all the souvenirs given by my friends during my school days and even when I started working.
Forget about the granddaughter, I still need to find the future grand father,hehehe :)
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@ktmatunog (912)
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
yah, pictures are very good sentimental values. I am a photo addict too and I love taking and watching pictures from time to time... especially my family photo album. I am just starting it now and wanted to collect as many memories as possible to tell my future granddaughter about my life!
@lilmisfit23 (386)
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
No I am not a sentimental type of person. That doesn't mean that I don't care for the things given to me, it's just that I view the object given to me with how I will be able to use it.
And since I experienced one of the worst flooding in our country where all of our belongings were washed out, it further strengthened my belief that I shouldn't hold on to things that much because it will hurt more when it is lost to you.
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@ktmatunog (912)
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
We value the things when they really help us and have a good use for us. But would let go of those things who you don't need or are not important to you anymore.
Others cry because they lost their valuable things. But they are just material things in this world and would just perish right?
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@bumblebee34 (190)
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
yes i am a senimental person. i usually keep small items that dont matter to others that would mater to me such as, a tissue paper with message, or scratch or a part of my notepad written with messages., even the greeting cards that comes along the gift. however, these days, in relation to things, big things like vase, or bottles, i dont keep them anymore. I dont know, i just feel the need of throwng them than letting them gather dust in my closet.
something tha i could pass on to my grandies.... mmm.. probaly the cards and letters that i still keep. by the time they get it, theyd see how letters were like unlike these days that we have email.
@bumblebee34 (190)
• Philippines
1 Oct 10
ahahah i could totally relate to that. i also have mails from special people that until now is in my inbox. it's just nice to see there names whenever i open my mail.
@ktmatunog (912)
• Philippines
1 Oct 10
yeah, letters back then are good sentimental things. all we have now are electronic stuff. but still you can file emails in your inbox. I have some emails in my inbox that are still not deleted because it comes from someone special and it will be a forever memory of her - my beloved grandmother. I dont know, i just can delete it because they are really precious to me.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
29 Sep 10
I am a very sentimental person. Often i have several emotions running through me at the same time. i can laugh or cry at the same thing given the circumstances. I could never be cold hearted. i am just too emotional and sentimental to ever be that way.
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@ktmatunog (912)
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
I am also as sensitive as you are too. But towards objects, would you have anything to share about how sentimental you value them? Like, you keep a certain thing - you wouldn't like to give away because of some important memory or the person who gave it to you is a special one...
@NoWayRo (1061)
• Romania
29 Sep 10
I don't invest objects with any sentimental value, but sometimes they seem to just come this way.
When I moved out of my parents house, I packed a small suitcase of clothes, a coffee mug and two sets of bed sheets. I went back later on only to take some books, and never felt the need for anything else.
Same thing happened the second time I moved, I took only the clothes and some consumables, like cosmetic products and so on. Once again, I had to ask the tenant who moved into my apartment to keep an eye on my books until I could find a place for them.
There's only one object that truly has sentimental value for me - a pair of earrings that my great-grandmother brought with her, when war forced her out of her country, and she became a refugee in the place I now call home. I would love to pass them on to the next generations in our family.
I'm also sorry I don't have any similar object to remind me of my mother, but she, just like me, kept objects only for their immediate purpose.
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@ktmatunog (912)
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
yeah you are so right! you tend to cling on to those things because of the memories you had with that person. I love the stories on how it is said to be sentimental. Thank you for sharing your experience. =p
@bagputza (504)
• Belgium
29 Sep 10
Good evening dear friend ktmatunog , well i am not actually certain on how to respond to this , but i could better tory to explain how i am and then it will be up to your choice to judge if i a am a sentimental person or not , so i guess i cann tell you that i am a type of person that likes to be verry trustfull in peoeple , because i like to believe that people are deep in their souls persons whom wants to be good person , and that has someone that cann also show him that he is worthy to be called a person that is trustworhti so then i like to give this person whom i met a chance to proove himself worthi of my trust , so at that moment i shall put him go trough a test , without that he realizes that he is put trough a test , so i cann obtain a true and real answer as possibile , at least i try my best at it , and then if he successes the test , i will considere him my friend and i will stick to be the person who cann turn to whenever he needs something tjhat it is in my power to get the thing that he need needs. I cann tell that i had used to be taken for a sucker before , because i always liked to help people and they were a verry much and big number of people in my life whom actrually profited of my kindess and mistooked me for a stupid person , because theyre were moments where i used to do anything for anyone , but not any longer , because i've put way too manny times , my trust and hope in the most wrongest choice i've made.
Florin , Over and Out
@Sanitary (3968)
• Singapore
4 Oct 10
Yes, i'm. I have kept alot of things from the past. There are things from my ex bf but i did not let my current bf know about it. Those things really carries alot of fond and bad memories with them. I will take them out to have a look at times. Those are the touching moments, which is unique to me. I know it might be unfair to my bf, but i can't bear to throw them away. However, if i were to get married one day, i will consider throwing them away, bcause it's time to let go of the past.
IF it's other things passed down from my mom or dad, i will be sure to pass it down to my daughter and son. It's my duty to do so, and a reminder for them to remember us.
@ktmatunog (912)
• Philippines
4 Oct 10
I can't keep things from my BF before we were married. He finds out things that even don't matter to me anymore! He's very clever. I think, he's spying on me that time. Maybe afraid that I will cheat on him? He is sooooo paranoid!hahah I hate that about him because it really causes us to fight!
But now when we are already married, we don't fight about our past anymore. He jokes about it sometimes, and I don't laugh about it.lol
I still have things from my ex and it is in his things. He knows it... He knows I did not care about it anymore.
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@ktmatunog (912)
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
i think most people are sentimental when it comes to precious important things...