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Conference quark::human_relations-v1

Title:What's all this fuss about 'sax and violins'?
Notice:Archived V1 - Current conference is QUARK::HUMAN_RELATIONS
Moderator:ELESYS::JASNIEWSKI
Created:Fri May 09 1986
Last Modified:Wed Jun 26 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1327
Total number of notes:28298

117.0. "Token Topic" by <Deleted> () Mon Oct 27 1986 21:28

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117.2What happens when you squeeze them?ATFAB::REDDENHardening of the CatagoriesMon Oct 27 1986 22:5910
    Dear Eagles,
    
    	Are tokens compressible?  Particularly when the token is shared
    as symbolic as a part of a human_relation?  In other words, can
    we take all the bulky tokens that hold the memories of our relationship
    and somehow tranfer the essense of tokeness into a much smaller,
    perhaps more powerful token?
    
    ADVthanksANCE,
        BOBBY
117.3Don't give something up if you don't wanna...MTV::FOLEYBoom shacka-lackaTue Oct 28 1986 00:3413

	Keep what you want. Keep something if if means something to you.
	Don't throw it away if it's gonna bother you.... For instance,
	while going thru my trunk I found pictures, love letters, memoribilia
	that was from past relationships. I sat there for hours going
	thru this "junk". It brought back alot of special memories of
	some special people in my life. They made me smile and some things
	made me laugh, some things even choked me up a little. I don't
	want to throw those things out. They're special to me and until
	they are no longer special they will stay in that trunk.

						mike
117.4Rainy day blues....AIMHI::HEBERTTue Oct 28 1986 11:258
    Why must you throw these tokens away?  So you don't have to deal
    with the pain?  The pain will be there in one sense or another.
    Along with the pain, there will also be fond memories.  Special
    moments only "you" and "she" will have shared.
    
    If at least one of these tokens brings a smile on your face and
    warms your heart, that should tell you "Maybe I'll hang on to this
    for a rainy day".
117.9But, is marriage in your future?HERMES::CLOUDLife is a beach...SURF'S UP!Tue Oct 28 1986 22:5110
    RE: Wedding tokens...
    
    
    		I still have a pair of lacy panties that were tossed
    	instead of the traditional garter belt!  Boy, was I surprised!
    
    	Little momentos never fade away, they just get dusty!
    
    					Phil
    
117.10Some words are for me only...ANYWAY::GORDONRandom Emotion GeneratorWed Oct 29 1986 01:0913
    	Some tokens are very private...
    
    	I have a box of cards & letters & various other trinkets & gee-gaws
    and I also have another box that contains mostly letters.  The second
    box is my "burn box" and a friend of mine has orders that if I die
    unexpectedly he is to burn the box and it's contents without looking
    at it.  There is nothing horrible in the box, just a few memories
    best kept between myself and the people who once meant the words
    on the papers...
    
    	Someday, I will burn the "burn box"...
    
    --D
117.12RAYNAL::RSILVERBob SilversteinWed Oct 29 1986 13:3611
    I too keep things from old relationships...  I have letters sent
    to me, VAXmail that I have printed out and kept, old cards,...
    
    I also have all three of the girls first tooth they lost, a lock
    of their hair, their first paper they brought home from kindergarten..
    sometimes, its nice to just look back upon memories, and live a
    special moment all over again...
    
    If I threw any of it out, I couldn't do that, now could I???

    Gale Kleinberger