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Name 3 tangible things you would bring with you if you were drafted.
Talk briefly about their importance and why you would want them.
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I practice minimalism actively. Most of the tangible things I use are
interchangeable---pencil, paper, pen, cup, computer. I'm not very
superstitious, so I don't carry anything for good luck or to ward off
evil. I don't, in my daily life, carry anything that couldn't be, within
a reasonably short amount of time be replaced by something else. My
phone is probably the single least interchangeable thing I carry, but
even it's not particularly unique. It could be switched with the same
model within a couple of hours. I don't store anything on it that's
unique to the device, so I could replace the device entirely within a
day or less. I'd carry that, but it's of no symbolic importance.
On the note of symbols, I have few if any but none important. I have
no single thing or set of thing like Cross's letters, and I don't keep
souvenirs. I might carry a deck of cards or a chess set, if I so chose,
but it wouldn't hold any symbolic value---at least at the start. I like
to believe that it would remain that way: whatever item I carry can
interchange with any sufficiently similar item. And I think there's a
good chance that whatever thing I carry would remain just that,
utilitarian and nothing more. There's also a chance that I'd become
attached to it, of course, but I find it improbable.
Beyond those two archetypes---necessary tools and optional tools---I
can't presently imagine any particular object which I would value deeply
for symbolic reasons. For that reason, I imagine my third item is
something I carry in error or by accident. I don't currently attach
myself too strongly to anything, but that's because essentially
everything with emotional value to me is physically proximal. The draft
would certainly cause me to develop a symbol for something without
intrinsic value, but I can't know what that thing would be, just like
Cross didn't know beforehand that a one ounce rock would be something he
carries.
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