My parents have been banging on about this for years, not about the big stuff, like the house, car, any money they might have, but about all the stuff, valuable or not, they have collected or inherited over the years and which might be of sentimental value to my brothers and me. There are carpets, music boxes, china, christmas decorations and so and on. They are petrified we would fall out over stuff like that and, having seen this happen with other people, I see their point.
Last christmas they finally started compiling a list and asked our opinion, it was beyond weird but also felt good to be able to talk about it and explore what everyone thought.
For myself, I don’t have much, but we might buy a house soon and then it will be very necessary and it would be good to appoint a guardian for any possible children before having them, because in the excitement you might forget. We were thinking about one of my brothers and just thinking of that makes me choke up.
Then there are little things I have inherited from relatives which I would like to be passed on in my family and maybe I’d like to write a few letters for people, maybe saying stuff you normally don’t.
Ok, this is hard, but it really makes you evaluate what is important and how you think of people. I will get round to it bit by bit.
