What are three objects you couldn’t live without?
This is a tough question. However, for me, it would have to be my Bible, my external hard drive, and my phone (with its charger!).
My Bible is so very important to me. It is highlighted, underlined, well-thumbed and has seen me through so many tough times in my life by means of the encouraging promises and hope contained within it. It goes everywhere with me. My favoured version is the King James Version, a love of which I share with my Dad and my late Grandad. Indeed, the smell of the pages takes me back to sitting in church services with my parents and feeling drowsy during the sermons. I would often get a whiff of the musty scent from my Dad’s KJV Bible which was, somehow, very reassuring. Every time I open my Bible, I get a faint reminiscence of those days when the very faint waft of pages and leather diffuse into the air. Although the church I go to now uses the ESV, it’s always my trusty old KJV which I turn back to. The archaic language makes it feel different and more authoritative, in my opinion. I read excerpts from it every day and cannot imagine life without it. I’ve read it through from cover to cover several times but I always come back to the Psalms when I’m feeling shaky, anxious, not good enough, or even very happy!
Next would have to be my external hard drive. An odd item but one which stores most of my family photos from the past three decades and some videos. Some of the people who feature in the photos/videos are no longer with us and so it contains some very precious memories which I would loathe to lose. There is footage of my children as toddlers. There is footage of my parents on milestone birthdays and anniversaries. All times which can’t be re-lived but which can be re-visited through the photo files on my external hard drive. Granted, this is more a sentimental item than a practical one but to me that doesn’t lessen its value.
Finally, my phone. Yes, I do use it as a phone but it is also a portable bookshelf, portable music library, my organiser, and my portable games machine. I need books somewhere among my three most needed objects but I would need more than three books. So I take them all, on my phone (the Kindle app especially). Same with music – there would be more than three CDs I would like to have with me, so I take my whole library (logging into Spotify or Youtube music are part of my daily ritual). I could do without social media but I would like my phone to keep in contact with family. I guess I’d need a charger too in that case. Can I sneak a charger in? I do love my blue Samsung A71 (I used to like iPhones until I converted to Samsung and now I wouldn’t think of returning to the Apple world). This model is now no longer being manufactured, so I will try and keep mine going for as long as I can.
So there we have my three must-have objects. I doubt these will change any time soon.
June's Jottings 