All My Life For Sale

After reading some of "All My Life For Sale" I started to think about all the possesions that one person can accumulate over an extended period of time. The short story really made me think about the stuff i had in the past. Most items from when i was a kid for the most part have been passed down the family or eventually ended up being sold to someone else that needed it. You really forget the true value in something after you dont use it for a period of time. People subconciously keep things and can never understand why they did or what uses the object may have till know. When I look at alot of the belonging i have now it makes me think about the true reason that i keep them. Most of my things hold some value whether a memory or just something i couldn't get rid of. In the reading i couldn't believe that he was actually going to try to sell as many belongings as he did. I feel that if I was to do something just as John did and sell all my things I would feel like i would be moving on and forgetting about everything that i used to associate with. In a way he started a new chapter in his life, he wiped the slate clean and im sure he will eventually repeat the process of being a "pack rat".