Holding Onto The Past
Last summer my daughter went through her belongings in preparation to start college and move into the dorms. While digging through boxes, closets, and drawers, she came across her rather larger collection of sketch books in which she had doodled throughout the years. Immediately she put them all in the “garbage” pile. When I asked her why, the response was, “Everything is so ugly! I can’t believe I was ever that bad at drawing.” (M. Hult 2009) I picked up a sketch book at random and flipped through it while glancing up at her wall of current art. Having no skill at drawing, I could never create something as beautiful as what was in this book and in her mind “garbage”. Were the pictures on the wall better? Of course! Years of classes, books/videos and self discipline had lifted her work to a significantly higher level and will continue to do so. (M. Hult 2014) I 100% disagreed with her decision to throw away her memories and hard work. You see my daughter