What if you only had sixty seconds to leave your house. The fire alarm is going off and you know that it's either leave quickly or run the risk of not making it out.
You freeze and start frantically looking around. Forty-five seconds left...
You still try to decide what to take. You know that your family has already made it out safely. Thirty seconds...
You frantically pick things up and discard them, still looking around for something you know you would miss. Fifteen seconds...
So what do you take? In 60 seconds what are the things you will grab, that are most precious to you?
I know for me it would be my Grandmother's old jewelery, and if it was within reach, my camera. Those things hold the most value in my life. I will never be able to replace my Grandmother's jewelery. She's dead, gone on to Heaven. I can remember her wearing some of the pieces that I have. My camera holds my memories. I know that they will forever be in my heart and mind and that a camera can be replaced, but I show my emotions through my camera. What makes me happy and sad, the things I love the most in the world- all of those things I portray through my pictures.
I don't have much of value, and almost everything I own is replaceable. But those sixty seconds can tell a lot about a person. Some of you would go for your technology, others for family heirlooms, and others still will forgo the quest to save anything and just run. But it is in that sixty seconds that you learn the most about a person.
So what would you take?
I'd want my poetry, journals, and pictures. But the pics would be pretty inaccessible since they're on my computer...I should change that
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