Memories

The good news is I was able to get my jewelry and my credit cards out of my old apartment. I will take my jewelry somewhere to see if I can get it cleaned or if there is a solution I can buy to try and restore it. I was able to get about three boxes of my belongings that were tucked away in the top of my closet in the living room. Everything else was damaged beyond repair or restoration. I assisted my dad in removing everything from inside of his home today also. There were a few items that were salvageable, but to remove all of your items and just place them on the sidewalk in order for the cleanup crew to come and get it was hard to swallow. The memories came back. High school, college, everything. Every award that I accomplished was gone. Every report card that my mother kept from elementary school was destroyed. Every picture of my youth was washed away by the horrible structure of a levee that we all depended on. Rumors have flown about whether the levee breached, was blown or was simply just too weak to support the storm that didn't even hit us. I don't know what to think. The only thing I want to do is hit rewind and grab more things. I know that mentally I have to heal myself, but it is so hard to say goodbye to all of those things that I once could place my hands on.