As I grow older, I find that I am becoming less sentimental. Both physically and metaphysically. I find that I am more willing to throw out old things whereas in the past I didn't.

Then I start to wonder why.

Am I less sentimental because I have just placed less emphasis on sentiments? Do they suddenly diminish with age? I'm not sure. Maybe it's because as I grow older, other things have more sentimental value. Maybe I have grown, and realised that these things that I have held on so strongly to are actually meaningless. They are perhaps just a waste of real / virtual estate.

Am I less sentimental because the things have lost their value? I still value them, things still hold sentimental value for me, but in a sense, they become less important.

Maybe as I've grown older, I've learnt to just care less in general. And this spills over into all aspects of life. Maybe it's because there are other affairs that require my attention or energies that I have none left to be sentimental about stuff.

Maybe I'll know for sure eventually. Or maybe it all won't matter anymore.
bert cussed at 12:11 AM.