Burned Down House

If your home were to be destroyed by fire but you could save just one thing, what would it be?

Interesting question, as I know exactly what I would save and have actually recently been wanting to purchase a fireproof box for said items ( where do I go to buy said fireproof box anyways?) The most important and invaluable possession(s) I own are my journals. Containing my most private, innermost thoughts and feelings and providing a snapshot of sorts of my life to date…they are irreplaceable. Close to 15 years of writing is stored in a box, just waiting to be tied together into one ultimate journal – the best selling, award winning book I intend to pen. So, if I was going to survive the destruction of my home to fire, I would most definitely find it in me to haul out that box containing the stories of my life. Everything else is just stuff. Insurance covers that. Insurance cannot recreate the multitude of journals I have written. Yes, I would definitely get my journals out of my burned down home.


Now, i f I happen to die in said fire but my journals survive, I remind my friends (you know who you are) once again of their strict instructions to retrieve and burn journals first, mourn my death later.