Seeing Objects and Memory made me think of a new show called Revolution on NBC. The show is set in the future where something has caused the world to lose power. Nothing works and it has become a sort of apocalyptic world. Military republics have sprung up and are sort of a government; but that's not the point here. One of the characters, Maggie, still carries around her iPhone. The only pictures she has of her kids, their whole lives, are on that phone. She looks at it to remember them since they are back in England and she was in the US when the power went out. So she hasn't seen them in 15 years.
That phone is her connection to her kids and her past. Sadly, on one of the recent episodes, she got hurt and later died. When she was dying she asked for her phone and you saw her memories of when she was last with her kids and what they did and what they looked like. The main character, Charlie, collects post cards of Chicago, her home town, and gets an idea of what Chicago was like before the blackout. All the characters have an item that has meaning to them and connects them to their pasts before the blackout.
This all got me thinking as to what I would have if I lived in their world without power or something like it. I think I'd have pictures of my loved ones, my dogs' collars and my book of Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
What would you keep?
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