Today's thought...Can one be too sentimental?

Okay I'm extremely sentimental when it comes to things. And I get worried if I'm not too sentimental. Like...okay. The necklace I wear. My mom got me the cross. I've been through several chains because I manage to keep breaking my chains, but the cross, has been on me at all times, (except when I had to have surgery or an MRI or something) since I got it at Christmas in '98.

I have a ring, that I wear on my ring finger on my right hand. My mom got it for me. It's my "Divorce" ring. That's a long story in and of itself. But there's nothing I haven't thrown away that doesn't have some sort of attachment. I don't wear a necklace outside of the cross my mama got me, I don't wear a ring on my ring finger outside of the one my mama got me, and just different things like that.

Inside jokes are everything to me, and sentimental values are everything. Everyone has those things that they would take with them to a deserted island (That doesn't include family members). Mine are sentimental. None of them are status. My ring is dainty, my cross is small, my blankie is something that the normal person would look at and walk away from. I feel like my valuables are like the challis in the third Indiana Jones movie. They were all looking for the most exquisite looking cup to hold the blood of Christ, and in the end, it was the one that looked the most simple and oldest. That's me. It's the things that most people would just look past, that mean the most to me. The things that thought and heart went into. Yes, even down to the stone in my pocket that makes me think now of not only my grandmother who I miss dearly, but now, my neighbor, who has one of the biggest hearts in the world.

So can one bee TOO sentimental? Am I? I don't think so. I think it means I can appreciate what I have, and where real value lies. It's not in the cost of things that matters. Real value lies in the memories those things bring. Be it a ring, a simple cross, or even a stupid stone. It's all about appreciating what lies behind the object or person. If you can do that, you will never feel neither poor, nor alone. And that's just my thoughts on things. What do you think?