Posterity

[rowens]

I had to stay with my mom a few weeks ago because she had surgery and couldn't do anything. And I found that she'd thrown away a box of things I'd left in her attic. Letters that were important to me, and things I'd written to family members in case something happened to me and I didn't get the chance to really show how much I cared about them. She said she threw it away because it didn't look like anything. I can't understand it, how something that's something didn't look like anything. When my mom dies and I find things she wrote and left for me and my sisters and her grandchildren to read, should I say, Well this doesn't look like anything, and throw it in the trashcan? It happens all the time. I can't let anyone around my notebooks, friends, girls, whatever, they throw them away. I complain, and people say it's no big deal, forget about it. But that sounds horrible to me. And some say I should have saved things on a computer if they were important, which sounds even more horrible.

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That's why I try to have a Mad Max mentality, just accept that nothing is going to last, and so I don't need anything or anybody. The only way to live is to let everything go. But I find a hard time doing it. That must be why Max is Mad.