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Jul. 29th, 2006 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kribbanI'm reading an interview with Elijah Wood and he said:
I was in my first real relationship when I was 16—total puppy love, romantic, beautiful. We had letters and emails and pictures between the two of us. And for whatever reason, I decided when the relationship was over to get rid of it all. It’s one of the most foolish things I’ve ever done, because it was the first relationship of any significance in my life.
Why did you do it?
I don’t know. Maybe I felt like that was what I was suppose to do. Or the fact that I was unhappy with the way things ended, and it was like the last bit of finality to the relationship. Then years passed. I started talking about it with somebody, and it was like "Why’d I do that?" It made me really sad. All evidence of that relationship had died. Shortly thereafter, for the first time in two years, I contacted that girl.
What did you say?
I told her, "I don’t have anything anymore." She said she had kept everything. I vowed that moment to never, ever do that again. It was comforting to know that someone had a record of what happened.
I think this sums up my attitude towards the past. I think it's important to live in the now, but I also think it's important to keep a record of the past. I am grateful that I have been writing yearly chronicles since I was fourteen and that I have been taking photographs and putting them in albums with dates and notes.
I am also very pleased that I took photographs for the special album marking my break-up from Malin and my move from Geneta. I plan on working on it during my vacation.
I was in my first real relationship when I was 16—total puppy love, romantic, beautiful. We had letters and emails and pictures between the two of us. And for whatever reason, I decided when the relationship was over to get rid of it all. It’s one of the most foolish things I’ve ever done, because it was the first relationship of any significance in my life.
Why did you do it?
I don’t know. Maybe I felt like that was what I was suppose to do. Or the fact that I was unhappy with the way things ended, and it was like the last bit of finality to the relationship. Then years passed. I started talking about it with somebody, and it was like "Why’d I do that?" It made me really sad. All evidence of that relationship had died. Shortly thereafter, for the first time in two years, I contacted that girl.
What did you say?
I told her, "I don’t have anything anymore." She said she had kept everything. I vowed that moment to never, ever do that again. It was comforting to know that someone had a record of what happened.
I think this sums up my attitude towards the past. I think it's important to live in the now, but I also think it's important to keep a record of the past. I am grateful that I have been writing yearly chronicles since I was fourteen and that I have been taking photographs and putting them in albums with dates and notes.
I am also very pleased that I took photographs for the special album marking my break-up from Malin and my move from Geneta. I plan on working on it during my vacation.
