Here is a quiz for you

Would you take 20,000 bitcoins (I have absolutely no idea of what that is worth) for all your record collection? How about an additional 10,000 bitcoins for all the books in your library?

There is constant chatter about ‘what was your favorite record?’ or ‘what was your favorite book?’ or ‘what was your favorite movie?’

Understand the psychological blanket of having your favorites surround you to be easily pulled off the shelf at an instant, but when was the last time you stopped and removed a vinyl album from the jacket and placed it on a turntable and sat back and listen to both sides? You may have stumbled over a song from the album on Spotify to download to your playlist but how about the entire album.

And album will be remembered by how each song followed the next one. Skipping a song or repeating it required standing up, picking up the needle and finding the groove. Even with today’s playlist can be rearranged for your favorites to run together. Unpopular songs can be deleted and a whole new album is formed.

But the quiz is about losing all your records and books. Could you survive? Would you kids approve of not having to deal with all your stuff or would they want your ‘likes’ to be passed down as inheritance?

At some point you will just view all your precise treasures as just clutter.

 While sitting in the wheelchair commiserating with others about long lost concerts you won’t be able to remember what Beatle’s album had “Yes It Is” or if “Red Gumbo” was done by Lowell George or ZZ Top or Lightning Hopkins?

Still, if you are somewhat sober and lucid, can remember what the White Album meant to you at the certain time in ’68. The fanatics will remember the difference between the mono and stereo version of ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. If you can remember when ‘Free Bird’ changed your life or ‘Stairway to Heaven’ meant something other than the tribute band attempting to reproduce the moment on a sea cruise tour, then maybe hang on to the vinyl that is full of scratches and skips.

You might not be with the one you loved then, so there will be different memories when the ancient tracks are played. Some other memories might not be yours so how do you coop?

In the long run, your memories are only yours. What made that song important or that book life changing or that movie influential is only your dream.

Whatever the answer to the quiz is, you may not be alone. There are no winners.