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Suppose your tastes change fairly consistently, or you have poor long term memory, or you've an elven lifespan. How would you approach flavor of the year fascinations? You read a book, watch a movie, travel to a new place. You evaluate, catalogue, and collect experiences and memorabilia. Maybe you write notes, scrapbook, keep top 10 lists, create customized setups suited exactly to you, and so on. But, in a few years, you'll have inherited someone else's belongings. Baggage, filled with clothes that no longer fit you, nor spark any feelings of nostalgia.
So what do you do? With the films that no longer move you, the playlists you won't put on again? Archive them away like your parents did with your drawings from second grade art class? Build a mini museum into your man-cave, a shrine dedicated to reminding yourself who you once were? Or make a clean break with the past, get rid of that outdated junk, and appreciate that you still have whims to give?
Plausibly, if my personality is that unstable, my tastes in archiving old things will also change. I'll go through a minimalist phase, throw everything out, then go through a nostalgic phase and regret it.
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Keep enough small tokens to decorate my day-day living space with pleasant memories and entertaining anecdotes, then give/throw the rest away. Curate the collection on a rolling basis, trading put the least meaningful for new tokens as I collect them. That's essentially what I do now. You can't keep everything. And you can fit a whole lot of memories in a relatively small scrapbook.
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