RadioLab: Things

The “Things” Radiolab episode was intuitive. The episode helped me realize my deeply rooted emotional presence that presents itself with an artifact of age. The story about the sugar egg takes me back to when I lost my baby bear. I was young when I had lost it and it was heartbreaking, but I did not understand why. When you’re younger you do not really make sense of the emotional connection between objects and yourself. I do not remember anything before the age of four, well clearly. So the connection that I had felt with this bear was not pin point-able. I could not remember a time where I did not have it and when I lost it tore at me. It made me sad when I lost it quite like the seed jar, but I eventually found my lost item.  Now that I am older I understand the feeling of youth that came with the object. When I would hold that object I would get these dreams of my mother holding me. The object gave me that feeling back. Now that I have it back I am not ashamed to say that I keep close by. It is mine The Radiolab episode made me think hard. I now believe that there is more than one definition for an emotional sense of sadness, loss, and a sense of relief.