James tossed his college ID out a car window somewhere along Niagara Falls Boulevard, and he's never stopped regretting it. That's just one of the keepsakes from his high school and college days he wishes he'd held onto, along with his first cast iron pan and some hilariously bad short films. The older he gets, the blurrier those memories feel, and the more he finds himself wishing he had something to hold onto.

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This is the Daily note from jamesabrown.net One of my many regrets is that I was flippant about keepsakes from high school college in my 20s.

Those times are kind of blurry now as I got older and my brain space is crowded with so much else.

I'd like to see and touch and feel all these things.

Things like my first cast iron pan which I didn't know how to clean, my college ID that I threw out the window somewhere on Niagara Falls Boulevard.

And then there's my oh so bad short films that confounded my film professor.

They're gone because I didn't realize how valuable they were.

And then there's the truth that's as inevitable as my graying hair.

Forgetting always wins.

So what about you?

Have you thrown away something that you wish you would have held onto?

What was it?

Let me know on jamesabrown.net on that note.

I'm James A.

Brown and as always, always be well.