Files of my life

I am going thru all my files that I've packed away over the years. As much as I throw alot out, it has piled up on me.

I found it interesting and nostalgic, and also sad to look thru some of this stuff. Alot of it reminds me of where I was, 2003 for example, having just bought a condo, going thru alot of presonal growth because of it and experiencing it with my ex-gf. The memories are still a bit too close to heart I suppose.

Anyways an interesting thing I noted is that my paychecks from 1999 till today aren't that different. But go back to 1997 and I noticed wow I was really barely getting by back then. Interesting as well to note that in 1997 at BoDacle I got like a 15% bonus (over the year split in 2 parts) which is really quite good. I guess I got used to 2% bonuses at BigHQ.

So its tough to go thru everything like this and throw out random bits of history. I had little knicknacks etc which are junk, and immaterial, but represent memories of my past. I try not to cling to the past by throwing this out, but am I losing all memory of it when I do so? For some things thats good, but others... maybe not?