on materialism and memories

This week a strange thing happened... I broke a glass... but not just any glass, one of my little collection. http://on.fb.me/9OOPyv I have this bad habit of collecting anything, shot glasses is one of them: sometimes I keep glasses I find, sometimes I buy souvenirs...
This particular glass was taken as payback back in 2004 in Hannover. While on the CC (Congress Committee of the largest AIESEC conference) in Germany we were taken out to eat at a Beer Garden by one of our sponsors... there we had this horrible waiter who had some random weird name with an R... he was such a fairy, and to be honest quite rude to ME for some reason, who knows... I think someone had a video of him too.
Well he had recommended a digestivo at the end of the meal, and Alicia (a team-mate from NZ) and I had obliged... turns out this drink was ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE.. i can still remember the disgusted looks on our faces... I was so angered by his petty picking I decided the glass was cute and original and that I would take it on holiday to Malta!! ... and that's where it's been for the past 6 years, sitting on my desk as I come and go...

breaking it for some reason made me crack....well it made something crack
I decided I needed to clean up my room, clean up my head, and well this goes hand in hand with me wanting to clean up my life...
I decided I needed to start losing a bit of my attachment to objects, and collect my thoughts instead of things.
For the past 10 or so years I've collected all sorts of stuff not to forget my experiences, travels, stories, moments.
So what did I do? ...
Collected items I had stored between wooden boxes (bought for hte specific purpose), raws and shelves and sorted every paper or picture by year... and now I have to glue them into their respective scrapbooks....

what next? I cleaned up my cupboard, wardrobe,desk and bedside table (which was also full of clutter) now I'll have to make my way through my bookshelf.
It feels really good actually. IT feels good to get rid of things...

So now, after this post I'm getting rid of the glass ( I wanted to throw it away only after having actually written this thought down...) This whole thing got me back into the thoughts of my previous post... on what is actually mine, and more importantly which of these things and objects is actually necessary and significant. While throwing away stuff I realised I couldn't remember EVERY single story behind each object...so off they went, and now I'm going to capture as much as possible and get rid of the clutter. Pictures are the best way I guess... most of the objects are un-necessary anyways, so a picture should be more than enough :)

The little Hannover glass made its last toast a long time ago... I think the day I drank from it was the first and last itme I used it!
...and I dedicate a virtual toast to my team from IC in Germany.... that's a memory that doesn't fade whether I have glasses, papers or any other object...