Just rambling thoughts today.
When we got married in 1971, we received this Royal Doulton figurine called Lorna. To a young couple just starting out, it was beautiful and definitely something we wouldn’t have considered buying for ourselves, not when as newly graduated students, we needed so many more practical things. But, the toaster died years ago, as did the kettle, the coffeemaker, the pressure cooker and the electric frying pan. What lives on is that glass statuette, but the sad thing is, once I’m gone–and that will happen some day–no one wants old, glass ,dust catchers.
The same is true of the fancy carnival glass dishes I’ve collected over the years and the precious antiques, too. Everyone wants new, modern, and “so what if it isn’t even made from real wood?”
This is just another sign of the times when everything old is devalued. Beautiful oak cabinets are painted rather than refinished. Hardwood floors are replaced with easy-to-care for vinyl or laminate. And what happens to those antiques? What happens to the things you collected and saved? They go to the second-hand store. Sad but true.
To add to this trend, all you have to do is look at the cries to remove statues from parks and government grounds because someone has discovered something about the person that was offensive. Maybe what seemed like a logical decision a hundred years ago turned out to be a bad one. I hope the future won’t judge me on the standard of those days rather than the standards of mine.
People no longer seem to want to learn lessons from history. They want to examine it in the light of today and then sanitize it and rewrite it so that everyone is happy with it. Think about that. No one has ever been able to please all of the people, all of the time.
And so I wonder where will all my treasures go when I’m gone?
What about you? Do you have treasures of your own? Do you know what will happen to them?
Living the Dream 